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...figure sum for a television interview, newsmen and others shuddered about such "checkbook journalism." Asked New York Times Columnist James Reston: "Won't other big shots or notorious characters demand their price?" Now the most notorious big shot of all has done just that. Last week David Frost, 36, the British talk-show host and entertainer, announced that he had bought the right to video-tape a series of exclusive television interviews with Richard Nixon, who has granted no audiences to the press since he left Washington a year ago. The price: reportedly somewhere between...
Screenplay by WES BISHOP and LEE FROST...
...erratically from month to month (it declined a shade in June), there is no reason to think that August figures will be much better. The latest report covers only part of the surge in grain prices that followed Russian purchases and does not include coffee boosts triggered by a frost in Brazil or a 3?-per-gal. hike in gasoline...
...republic, but it was a Pyrrhic triumph. Versifiers have a habit of outlasting politicians, and there is a nucleus of truth in Shelley's romantic declaration, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." From time to time the acknowledged legislators agree; for one brief, shining moment, Robert Frost even shared the inaugural platform with John F. Kennedy. That, however, was a greater victory for p.r. than for poetry. The recent snubbing of Solzhenitsyn by the White House suggests that things have returned to the Platonic state. Which is where they should be, according to Robert Penn Warren...
...shock of White Friday, however, could indirectly reduce Brazil's output over the longer run. The Brazilian government is eager to see coffee planting moved northward, away from the danger of frost, so it may encourage growers in Paraná and São Paulo to switch to soybeans. But if new areas of cultivation do not open up quickly, Brazil's exportable crop, which accounted for 32% of the world coffee trade in 1974-75, could fall drastically...