Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marie Saint. But she turns out to be Mason's agent (although ultimately a double agent) and the persecution continues. Scary enough. But Hitchcock invests even more genius in a few intricately-constructed and flawlessly-carried-out chase scene: the escape from the rare antique auction, the low-flying crop-duster in the cornfield bit, and the film's finale, a rush from death across the carved faces on Mount Rushmore. Hitchcock himself jaunts onto the screen in the opening minutes, his belly pulling up to and bouncing off the closing door of a bus. He knew what a brilliant...
...caps emblazoned with the words AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. But the thousands of burly farmers, with strike buttons on their brightly colored windbreakers, were readily recognizable last week as they spilled into the Capitol Building with their wives to watch Congress vote on an emergency one-year farm bill to boost crop prices and increase farm loans. It was the climax of a protest begun in December by the farmers, who were caught in a painful squeeze between falling world prices for their crops and rising costs of production...
Inflation seems immune to all antibodies. Wage-price controls held it down in 1971-72, but as soon as they were eased living costs soared. OPEC oil price gouging and crop failures round the world further lifted prices in 1973-74, but the inflation rate has not returned to "normal" (whatever that might be), even though, OPEC is observing a price freeze and harvests are filling bins. The 1973-75 recession for a while cut the inflation rate in half, from 12% to 6%, at the savage price of almost 9% unemployment in early 1975. But 6% inflation is still...
...points out, though, scientists might take a lesson from history. When Louis XVI tried to popularize potatoes in France during the 18th century, the people refused to eat them-until he established a royal potato garden, which the peasants promptly invaded to get at the King's new crop...
...week goes by without a new Bosworth inflation alert landing on the President's desk. His memos have attacked the nation's doctors for raising their fees 50% more than the increase in the cost of living last year. He has accused farmers of asking for crop subsidies that might create double-digit food inflation next year. He has criticized Congress-and indirectly even the White House-for appearing to cave in to the farmers' demands. Bosworth has also become an effective jaw-boner. Two weeks ago. he masterminded the Administration's successful effort to prevent...