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...here getting a Ph.D. And I wrote something for Leverett House 'cause they wanted it for spring weekend, see? But the professionals bought it and put it on. And then by God, I was a professional!" No, he hadn't tried. But the exposure left its mark. The grain of interest, shoved by unsought accomplishment, gradually snowballed into ambition...
...countries because the U.S. Export-Import Bank cannot, by law, deal with the Russians until the default is cleared up. Both sides will now probably sign agreements during the presidential visit providing for improved shipping arrangements between the two countries and for the largest sale of U.S. grain to Russia since the cold war began...
...Iowa Air National Guard plane exploded when it plowed into the ground 100 ft. from Peter Tjernagel's farmhouse in the central part of the state. About 12,000 Ibs. of flaming jet fuel spewed from the plane and burned everything in sight, including corn cribs, grain bins and a $7,700 borrowed combine...
...Trilling and many others have presented him as a naive figure, who blundered upon the crucial questions of his age without understanding them and then passed through successive waves of disgust and disillusionment, finally reaching a nadir of despair at which he wrote 1984 and died. There is a grain of truth in this concept, but only a grain. Orwell picked up his political education in bits and pieces, on the run; he toyed in print with ideas he would later reject. But he came to understand political life in its concrete details as few writers have. In doing...
CREDIT TERMS. On the grain deals, the Soviets seek ten-year credits at an interest rate of 2 or 3% v. the prevailing average U.S. rate of 6%. The Russians are unlikely to get specially low interest rates, but Butz hinted that if they offer to make really big purchases in the U.S., Washington might devise a combination Government-private credit for five to seven years...