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Butz later predicted that the Soviets might buy as much as $200 million worth of American wheat and feed grains every year for the next decade. That puffy prediction was bound to please American farmers-but how would the Russians raise the money? Butz suggested to Brezhnev that the Soviet Union might consider paying for the grains by exporting its surplus of Siberian natural gas to the U.S. It was, of course, too early to agree on a deal that would cost at least $5 billion for plants, pipelines and ships, with most of the cost borne by the Russians...
...Butz. who was hired last fall to quiet a near-revolt by farmers over low prices, has gloated over their recent levels. Farmers have benefited substantially in recent months from deliberate Government policies. Butz has budgeted a record $4 billion for 1972 agriculture programs, including $1.9 billion for feed-grain subsidies. Such payments not only jack up the price of, say, feed corn, but also of meat. Reason: when feed grains are expensive, farmers raise less livestock...
...journal Physics Today devotes most of its current issue to optoelectronics, calling it "without doubt one of the fastest-growing areas in physics." The new technology has already produced miniaturized lasers that are no bigger than a grain of sand. It is turning holography (three-dimensional photography) into an exciting new adjunct of diagnostic medicine, civil engineering and computer technology. It has yielded light-detection devices that can virtually see in the dark, and it offers a promising way to help relieve the jam in cable and radio communications by transmitting messages on beams of light. Yet in terms...
...Ford Coppola, who directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay, probably felt the grudge of conscience more than Puzo. If he cuts a key line--"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns"--he compresses most of Puzo's legends until their grain of truth is revealed. All that remains in his Sicilian scenes, for instance, is the animal vitality of the settings and natives, and the treachery which kills Mike's Sicilian bride in a sabotaged auto...
...these go with them, and what a loss." What the students brought back could have been as tiresome as any other high school magazine; in fact, Foxfire has been coming out quarterly ever since, gathering subscriptions across the U.S. Presented in this anthology, the material has the straight, tough grain of authenticity...