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...Southern Baptist Convention, says, "My father wouldn't approve of what I'm doing," and calls his father's methods of seeking converts "buttonholing for Jesus." Yet the younger Schellenberg remains an evangelist. When a hot day's work is done, he chats with farmer friends about the threat of evil spirits and the opportunity of gaining freedom through Jesus Christ...
These sales might further depress already low farm prices, but Block thinks the effect would be minor. The reason: if a farmer let land lie fallow on which he could grow, say, ten bushels of wheat, the Government would give him only eight bushels (though exact ratios are not settled). Thus the total reaching the market would be reduced. Farm income would be bolstered because farmers could sell crops without the expense of growing them...
...some cases, a farmer could in effect sell the same crop twice. He could grow wheat on land he kept in production, sell it to the Government at the support price, get it back in payment for the acreage he had idled-perhaps before the wheat had left his farm-and resell it on the open market...
Even nature seems to have turned against Mexico this year. More than half of the country's 31 states are suffering from drought, adding further to the human misery. In Oaxaca, Peasant Farmer Manuel Ramirez Santiago, 30, explains that he has given up entirely on working the land. Instead, he has become a street-side Popsicle vendor. Agricultural experts estimate that on a nationwide scale, Mexico will have to import 10.5 million tons of basic grains by the end of 1983 to compensate for the natural disaster...
Jessica Lange emerges more than honorably. Her face eschews classical symmetry; its bumps and crooks, its tight-dimpled smile, comment ironically on Hollywood's obsession with the Aryan ideal. But she can be, like Frances Farmer, both vulnerable and powerful. She works with a telling economy of gesture: nodding wearily as she listens to Odets' manifestoes, sucking desperately on a cigarette as if it contained the only oxygen in the room. Lange's inevitable Oscar nomination will be every bit as honestly earned as Streep...