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John R. Funk, a retired seed-corn executive and president of the George Ade Memorial Association, comes on the line with directions to the old Ade estate as if it blocks out more Indiana sky than a grain elevator. "Two miles east of Brook, on Indiana 16," he says, neglecting to say there is no interstate exit for Brook, nor for Highway 16, and not saying, too, that the signs at the town of Brook proclaim a population of 914 and a ban on peddlers and solicitors, but do not mention Ade. Found in the flesh, Funk, a courtly study...
...tricky crop. Sichuan had evolved its own two-crop culture ? rice in summer and wheat or rapeseed in winter. But Peking had ordered two rice crops a year. So Sichuan tried to meet its quotas. When the climate made that impossible, the government had to send grain into this onetime surplus province, and the peasants hungered...
PRESIDENT REAGAN has won a significant political victory with the Soviet downing of Korean Airlines flight 007, though no one in the White House would ever put it so bluntly. In recent weeks the President had gone against his own instincts by signing a long term grain deal with Moscow, lifting a ban on the sale of caterpillar pipe-layer equipment, and agreeing to initial a treaty on security and human rights negotiated in Madrid...
...Such as canceling the newly signed grain agreement...
...experience with that before, and it didn't work. It not only didn't work, but if there was any penalty, it was against our own people more than against them. They've proven that grain is accessible to them any place else. So there were things of that kind which we considered very seriously but ruled out. There were a number of other things that show your displeasure, but they could respond with retaliation of the same kind...