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...that had set in during the last years of Leonid Brezhnev's rule. The results have been mixed. Soviet national income has grown at the rate of 4% this year, compared with 2.9% in 1982. Andropov can also take heart from what is expected to be the best grain harvest since 1978. According to U.S. analysts, the yield may reach 200 to 210 million metric tons, well above the average of 177 million metric tons over the past four years. Still, the Soviet Union will not solve its economic troubles by cracking down on drunks and trusting...
Last week U.S. and Chinese negotiators finally reached a compromise. Under the plan, which covers 33 types of products ranging from shirts to printed cloth, Chinese imports will be allowed to grow about 3% annually. After the agreement was signed, Chinese grain dealers were back in the market for U.S. wheat...
...father was an Alsatian Jew who was an international speculator. John Houseman spoke four languages as a child, was educated as a privileged Englishman, won an Oxford scholarship in modern languages, but went instead to Argentina to live among gauchos, returned to London, and learned the international grain trade. He was on the point of becoming wealthy as a grain speculator in the U.S. when the Crash of '29 bankrupted his company. His entry into the performing arts occurred simply because he had married an actress and knew a few theater people...
...wonders what might have happened to Houseman had the Great Depression not ejected him from his merchant princedom in the grain-trading business. No doubt he would have become rich. Then, given his artistic bent, he would certainly have involved himself in the theater, probably as one of those opinionated amateurs, an intrusive, indispensable backer of the exasperating kind he describes at several points in his story Certainly Houseman could have played such a role with ease. But if he had, who would have played Houseman...
...would be convenient to conclude that Peirce and Hagstrom have assembled a portrait of a middle-aged U.S., its seas a little less shining, the waves of grain ringed by bald patches of subdivisions, the once purple mountains now mauve with smog. But the country does not age evenly. Alaska is barely in its adolescence; high tech has given sagging Massachusetts a facelift, and much of the South is having a rebirth. North Carolina is now tenth in population with the highest percentage of workers employed by industry. Unfortunately, there are signs of sclerosis in the heartland. "Sadly...