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...tiny, blue-eyed Mediterranean fruit fly has a way of provoking political distemper in California. In 1981, amid a furor over spraying to control a 1,400-sq.-mi. outbreak, the director of the California Conservation Corps flamboyantly swallowed and survived a big -- albeit heavily diluted -- mouthful of the insecticide Malathion to demonstrate its safety. Nothing quite so theatrical has been attempted during the latest medfly visitation, which began five months ago. But state food and agriculture department officials responsible for the anti-medfly campaign have stood under a drizzle of the pesticide showering from a helicopter. Unconvinced, some irate...
...Arctic freeze that blasted across the U.S. last week pushed its chilly talons deep into the national economy. How far, farmers and commodities investors from Florida to Chicago are still trying to figure out. Some of the effects were as obvious as the icicles hanging from Sunbelt citrus fruit; others, like increased demand for energy supplies and bottlenecks in heating- fuel distribution, were harder to gauge. U.S. consumers, however, were fairly certain they could count on higher costs for food and fuel this winter...
...week's end, with growers scrambling to ship freeze-damaged fruit to juice processors before it spoiled entirely, industry losses had yet to be calculated. One stroke of fortune was that in Texas some 40% of the crop had already been harvested, though this year's calamity, which followed freezes in December 1983 and January 1985, might still force many small producers to the wall. Among the remainder, layoffs seemed inevitable: Abbitt, for one, has furloughed 175 of his 450 workers...
Textile Titan. Many skeptical eyes are turned on William Farley, the physical-fitness buff who acquired Northwest Industries, the maker of Fruit of the Loom products, for $1 billion in 1985. Last February Farley took over textile giant West Point-Pepperell in a $3 billion raid that included $1.6 billion of junk-bond financing. A fellow raider calls Farley's debt a "time bomb." While Farley once joked that "we're doing fine, except that the banks expect us to pay them back," he now refuses to discuss his finances or the subject of raiding. Says he: "I'm staying...
...restaurants, agrees. "Flavor is in again, and game is full of flavor," he says. "It's evocative of the past, of tradition. It's romantic." This season Aurora has set up a special game menu for its dinner guests. Last week's offerings included medallions of venison with dried fruit, saddle of hare with black- and white-peppercorn sauce and roasted Scottish grouse...