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...lovely vibrato and a flair for playing a dumb blonde. The six girls in the chorus of courtesans have, as the French say, beaucoup de monde au balcon. Not only are they gorgeous, but they dance well. Rima Wolff, who choreographed their big number, has given them a bumper crop of grinds and shakes...
...rest of Russia was being brutally forced into collectivization. After Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956, all of that changed. Georgians were dropped from power in Mos cow, and Khrushchev even tore up a few of Georgia's vineyards, replanting them with his favorite crop, corn...
Dwindling Surpluses. The major reason for the price rise is the startling decline in U.S. farm surpluses. Because of Government crop controls and the increasing size of foreign-aid shipments of food to famine-threatened nations, the wheat surplus has dropped since 1963 from 32.5 million to 15.2 million metric tons, is now below the minimum needed as insurance against domestic crop failure. In addition, bad weather reduced this year's harvest. Speaking at the Miami convention of the National Association of Food Chains last week, Boston Supermarket Executive Gordon F. Bloom said: "American consumers have grown accustomed...
...Troublesome Trait. Designated 6-105 by the Agriculture Department, the new wild oat, which has a high protein value, resists the rusts that destroy 6% of the U.S. oat crop every year. To eliminate its tendency to lose some of its kernels before harvesting, it is currently being bred with existing commercial varieties at Agriculture Department stations in Midwestern and Southern states. When that troublesome trait is eliminated and varieties bred from 6-105 finally go into large-scale production, they could save the U.S. farmer upwards of $26 million per year...
...swaggering, popping his optics, slopping his chops and generally behaving like the Nero of the Nuisance Claims Division. In the end, Willie receives a different sort of check from the one he expects, but until fate mows him down he offers what is certainly the season's lushest crop of crass...