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...these are not the best of times to be a chicken. First the searing heat over much of the nation this summer killed nearly 10 million birds, or about 1% of the 1.25 billion commercial chickens alive and scratching in the U.S. at any one time. Drought drove up grain prices, making the fowl more expensive to feed and buy. Now comes still another peril: so-called exotic Newcastle disease, a viral disorder that attacks chickens as well as a wide variety of other birds...
Another difficulty with the roles springs, one suspects, from casting very closely to the grain of the real students behing the characters. At times, the people on stage seem to have stopped acting. They become participants in their characters' problems and activities; the production beams in and out sporadically, its atoms lost in the Enterprise's transporter room, somewhere between a production and the scenes most likely taking place simultaneously in the rooms in Kirkland directly above the Junior Common Room, those of actual students. Instead of aiding the success of the show by bringing an extra dimension of realism...
...Some grain exporters have picked up part of the trade slack by thinly disguised transshipments. During the twelve months preceding September 1979, for example, only 764,000 metric tons of U.S. wheat were shipped from Duluth, Minn., to Canada. But in the following twelve months, the quantity more than doubled, to 1.8 million tons. Says William Cortez of the Duluth Port Authority: "This is definitely not grain for Canadian consumption. You have to assume that it is being shipped elsewhere...
...France is trying to give the embargo the coup de grâce. France, which is Western Europe's leading grain producer, although it is not a major world exporter, has just completed a bumper harvest. The French this year will have 3 million to 4 million tons of wheat available for export. As a member of the European Community, France is bound by a pledge made last winter that it would not take advantage of the American embargo by boosting its own grain exports to the Soviet Union. But now the French government wants the Community to shelve...
Despite the recent sharp price in creases, farm experts do not expect a total runaway in the cost of grain and other commodities, such as occurred following the disastrous Soviet crop failure in 1972. Grain inventories around the world still provide a modest reserve cushion, and that should stop any serious agricultural shortages during the coming year, when world grain consumption is expected to exceed production by 37 miliion tons. On the other hand, another harvest as bad as this year's, and nations could find themselves facing disturbing shortages...