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...than the Clement Colombet Chablis at the American Film Institute dinner in Beverly Hills, Calif., honoring bulbous Meisterzinger of Murder Alfred Hitchcock at 79. "Hitch's genius," quipped Actor John Forsythe, "is that he can put such life into death." Ingrid Bergman praised the director as "a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh." Ventured Cary Grant, who managed to emerge alive from four Hitchcock epics: "The best is yet to come, Hitch." Spattered with tributes and smothered by adoration, Hitchcock observed in his familiar bullfrog voice: "Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement...
Cradled between the Sierra Nevada on the east and the Diablo Range on the west, California's San Joaquin Valley is a farmer's paradise spread across an earthly 8.5 million acres. Its fertile soil yields tomatoes, sugar beets, grapes, hay, cotton and, usually, heavenly revenues (1977 total: $4.76 billion). Yet most of the valley gets less than 10 in. of rainfall a year; farmers import nearly 60% of their water. Now the water that has helped create the paradise is threatening to ruin...
Cost of the massive project: $750 million, to be shared almost equally by the state and federal governments. But California would buck its bill back to the farmers by charging them $15 per acre-foot of drainage water and $1.30 per acre-foot for incoming irrigation water. That, they fear, would drain them of cash. Says Cerutti: "It would ruin me." Adds Tulare County Farmer Stan Barnes: "It's the unknown, hidden costs that worry...
...supplies was a kind of supernutritious cracker that had a shel life of about five years. Inspections revealed that the crackers had become unfit for human consumption. Partly for thi: reason, the city decided to dispose of the survival rations and agreed to pay Edward Barniak, an upstate farmer, $1 a ton to haul them away. Barniak should do rather well on the deal, since he gets the medicines and other supplies, as well as 7,000 tons of crackers. Even they have a use. After being ground up, they are fed to his cattle, which so far have suffered...
...hurting? Evidently it is a minority of farmers who unwisely took on onerous debts in the mid-1970s to buy costly new acreage in the be lief that prices for farm land would continue to soar. The typical farmer, who has a modest 170 in debt for every dollar in assets, has no need to raise Cain in Washington...