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Mentor to dozens of young and would-be food professionals, Beard was just right for the role of pioneering good, honest cooking when fanciness in the U.S. meant Fannie Farmer tearoom aberrations or their equally dismal counterparts, pseudo-Continental conceits. For Americans uninterested in food, he began the process of making its subtle pleasures accessible. For Americans overawed by Europe's haughty haute cuisine, he brought good news of the merits to be found in the U.S. culinary heritage...
...activists on both sides of the abortion controversy think Reagan's statements have created a momentum of their own. Said Ray Kranz, a South Dakota farmer who traveled to the march in Washington by bus: "Reagan has helped us out a lot. He's been an inspiration." Judy Goldsmith, president of the pro-choice National Organization for Women, expressed concern that "the President could send us back to the time when women risked their lives to be able to determine what happened with their bodies...
...diplomatic corps, the Soviet Union's longtime Ambassador to Washington, Anatoli Dobrynin. The other was an invitation to six "real people," as Mathias called them, from around the nation. Selected through professional associations, the group includes a truck driver from Alabama, a union official from Maryland, a farmer from Kansas, a fire fighter from Texas and a businesswoman from California. For the sixth, Buffalo Narcotics Agent Joe Petronella, the invitation presented a problem: he specializes in undercover work requiring disguises and refuses to be photographed. Even so, he vowed, "I'm going as myself...
Among the most serious problems facing the American farmer is the strength of the dollar, which is making American agricultural products too expensive in world markets. U.S. farm exports last year were off 13%, to $38 billion, compared with a record $43.8 billion in 1981. Cargill, one of the world's largest grain traders, has shown in recent weeks how topsy-turvy world agricultural trade has become. The company briefly considered buying Argentine wheat at $113 a ton and selling it to U.S. flour mills. Even with about $19- per-ton freight charges and $8-a-ton duty, the Argentine...
...origins of the lean years that now plague farmers go back to the fat ones of the 1970s. While that decade brought galloping inflation and uncomfortably high unemployment, it was nonetheless a golden age for agriculture. Farm exports, which amounted to just $7 billion in 1970, increased fivefold during the decade as the world developed a taste for American products. American farmland values zoomed as well. An average acre of Iowa land sold for $417 in 1970 but was worth $2,147 at the start of the '80s. Increasingly prosperous farmers borrowed heavily to buy additional acreage and new equipment...