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Litigation dragged through the years, and the family struggled on. The old baron suffered a paralyzing stroke ten years ago; the baroness continued trying to manage the estate. Then a local merchant who had long sold grain and seed and rented farm machinery to the De Portals presented a bill for $14,000. The family charged that it was a fraud. Before the matter could be resolved, a judge ordered the estate sold at auction. Though it was worth an estimated $330,000, a farmer named Louis Rivière made the high bid of $88,000, and the outstanding...
...poetry (the historical state of Ch'u is Mao's birthplace). China watchers believe that they have seen signs of Mao's beginning to turn inward, to reflect on himself in the light of Confucian philosophy. From a Confucian bit of advice about grain storage, given to the last Emperor of the Ming dynasty, comes Mao's latest slogan for his waiting countrymen...
...complex cycles for raising cattle and hogs also reached their low points simultaneously. At this rather inopportune time, the U.S. economy started booming, and demand for meat picked up. On top of that, a bad crop in the Soviet Union caused Moscow to turn to the U.S. for grain. The Soviets bought $1.2 billion worth, biting into U.S. domestic supplies...
With a domestic grain shortage staring them in the face, and consumers complaining about rising food prices, Nixon and Butz quickly reversed farm policy. Prodded by Treasury Secretary George Shultz, an ardent free marketeer, they proposed a new laissez-faire farm policy that would abandon some price supports and reduce other subsidies. They returned as much acreage as possible to production, dropped export subsidies and prepared to "empty" the Government storage bins. Though they forecast that such moves would cause food prices to level off after midyear, that was not soon enough for irate consumers...
...themes is the interaction between Luce and the talented and often difficult men and women who staffed the Time Inc. magazines. Most editorial positions were arrived at through incessant rounds of discussion and debate. A complex man, Luce was both opinionated and open-minded; giving orders went against his grain. Persuasion was the art he preferred, and indeed he emerges from Elson's pages as perhaps too easy a boss. He sometimes took stands without following them through and wrote waspish memos that repose in his files marked "Not sent...