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...Officials ignored early evidence-including explicit and repeated warnings starting as early as February from a U.S. agriculture attaché in Moscow -that a frost-and drought-stricken harvest in 1972 would force the Soviets to make massive purchases of U.S. grain...
...Diahann Carroll, 38, chic-sexy nightclub singer and the first black actress to star in her own television series (NBC's Julia); by Fredde Glusman, 39, the prosperous Las Vegas haberdasher who married her four months ago, shortly after Carroll broke her engagement to Talk Show Host David Frost; in Reno...
Three of the performances deserve special acclamation. Bill Evans, the rave of the jam session, came back and did a soft, imaginative and expressive set which was not, however, as good as his previous performance. Billy Taylor, formally the leader of the band on the David Frost Show, played brilliantly. His skillful quotations were full of polish and wit, and they showed a musical form deeply rooted in the classical tradition. Earl "Father" Hines, perhaps the most acclaimed jazz pianist alive, captivated the audience by holding a right hand trill for five complete courses, simultaneously improvising with his left hand...
Unusual snows in South Carolina and Georgia last winter. A particularly late frost in California this March. The worst flood in the Mississippi basin since 1937. Abroad, the worst drought in India in 20 years. A landscape of dehydrated livestock carcasses dotting the dry beds of rivers in Africa. An absence of monsoons that ruined the rice crop in Southeast Asia...
California's crops were severely damaged by a sequence of heavy rain last autumn, devastating cold last winter and late frost this spring. So far this year, shipments of onions, tomatoes and plums are down at least 50%; potatoes are down 33%, and lettuce 25%. With supplies short, prices paid to growers have soared in the past year: from $3 to $8 for a hundredweight of potatoes, and from $1.35 to $7 for 24 heads of lettuce...