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...from behind the prose screens). More than any of his 17 previous novels, the story takes off from the workaday world in search of the ineffable. The familiar trappings of Wright's baroque realism turn up: the taste of switch grass and cord grass, the loom of grain elevators, the feel of a kitten dropped by wanton boys into a country-school privy. But the subject is myth. Old, unbelieving, literal-minded Floyd Warner takes on immortal longings. Having defied common sense by taking a herd of sheep and a wife to the banks of the Pecos where...
During the days of the cold war, it was widely believed that the wily Russians would, unless watched with the greatest suspicion, outwit the simple-hearted Americans at every turn. The myth has turned out to be true-in a most embarrassing way. Last year the Soviet Union, needing grain because of serious crop failures, sent a delegation to hole up in a New York hotel to buy wheat-440 million bushels of it. The U.S., long plagued by grain surpluses, obligingly held the export price of wheat at $1.63 per bu. by subsidizing farmers and grain dealers...
Nearly 30 years have passed since Dana Andrews pursued Jeanne Grain across the Des Moines fairground to the accompanying strains of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Andrews is a grandfather by now, and Jeanne Grain makes the rounds of TV talk shows, but the state fairs of the Midwest remain almost immutable. From Des Moines, TIME'S David Wood reports on this year's extravaganza...
...allaying fears of foreign buyers, who are now likely to scale down immediate orders in the belief that supplies probably will be available later. Other nations are increasing their harvests this year. Canada's wheat crop, for instance, should weigh in at close to a record. Soviet grain output is falling short of targets, but nowhere near as disastrously...
Some of the most interesting parts of the story are still a mystery - "John Smith," for example. In the midst of all the secret haggling between the Soviets and the grain companies, Morton I. Sosland, the editor of a key trade paper in the milling and baking industry, began receiving transatlantic phone calls to Kansas City from Mr. Smith, who claimed to be a British journalist with inside dope on the bargaining. Smith's name and job proved to be phony. But his information on the ultrasensitive purchases was amazingly accurate, and it helped get out to a broader...