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...year. Though 80% of Polish farm lands are still privately owned, the farmer during the Gomulka regime was a virtual serf to the state, which told him exactly what and how much to raise. Now a farmer is free to grow whatever sells best. Says one: "I switched from grain and vegetable farming to raising pigs, and am making more money than ever...
...with monotonous expectations until you do something to make them stop; then you wait for them to get their balance and you watch them reconsidering you. It's implied that you know something about them-otherwise you couldn't know how to go against the grain. The surprises may not always be beneficial, but I find that I need to give to others a sharp kick in their head...
...unforeseen irony: it is contributing to a massive jam-up at U.S. ports of wheat destined for Russia. Only about 10% of the 400 million bushels of wheat scheduled to be sent to the Soviet Union by next June have left the U.S. Some 27 million bushels of grain are crammed into storage elevators in Houston alone, waiting for ships to carry them...
Lining up ships to haul so much grain so quickly would have been difficult in any case. But the problem has been intensified because maritime unions demanded that one-third of the ships carrying wheat to the Soviet Union be U.S.-flag vessels, and Washington got Moscow to agree. President Nixon's negotiators had little choice; U.S. longshoremen might have refused to load Russia-bound wheat aboard any ships and scuttled the whole deal...
City Councillor and Riverside resident Saundra Graham said yesterday that Harvard's Report to Cambridge Community is vague and uncompromising, and "should be taken with a grain of salt...