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...cold soak" also plagued the Midwest's farmers. Near Mount Vernon, Iowa, Gordon Neal discovered that the frost had penetrated an astonishing 6 ft. into the soil, freezing his water line for the first time since it was installed at the turn of the century. His silage pile was unusable, frozen rock-solid; he was forced to feed his cattle scarce hay. Following an extended drought, the freeze endangered the winter wheat crop throughout the Midwest...
...save their groves. Some 55 million boxes of oranges (out of an estimated 211-million-box crop) were lost, forecasting a likely price rise. Temperatures as low as 30° at Fort Lauderdale and 23° in Homestead killed pole beans, watermelons and tomatoes. It was the worst frost in 37 years. The weather was causing even Floridians to pack up and head south. Puerto Rico reported an influx of tourists from Miami-but high winds made even San Juan's 78° seem too cool. Wise vacationers fleeing the cold headed west rather than south: Phoenix and Tucson...
...such prominent alumni as James Schlesinger, Henry Kissinger, Archibald Cox, James D(NA) Watson, and Teddy Kennedy, along with some lively cynicism from Ralph Nader. And then what about distinguished likes of Henry James, John Dos Passos, FDR, Norman Mailer (who did not write the Monroe doctrine), Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Joseph Alsop, Frederick Lewis Allen...All right, I give up! I concede! Harvard is tradition, for God's sake...
Crop Killed. Why have prices gone up so much? The cost of green coffee beans began immediately rising after the devastating frost of July 1975 that killed or harmed more than half the coffee trees in Brazil, which provides about a third of the world's supply. Although the 1975 crop had already been harvested, large parts of the potential crop for this year and last were severely damaged. Brazil's production plunged from 22.2 million bags of coffee in the 1975-76 crop year to 6.4 million bags last year, a 70% drop, while world demand remained...
...then, but Murdoch imported his Sydney-tested approach, and circulation picked up. He shocked many Britons, for example, by rehashing the randy memoirs of Call Girl Christine Keeler in his News of the World. Private Eye, a London satirical magazine, labeled him the "Dirty Digger."* Talk Show Host David Frost dragged him onto TV one evening and publicly belabored him over the Keeler affair. (Murdoch some months later bought a major interest in London Weekend Television, a production company partly owned by Frost, and fired dozens.) Murdoch mostly ignored his incessant vilification in the British press and kept pointing...