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With Christmas comes mass insanity. As Yuletide approaches, hordes of hatchet-happy entreprenuers harvest huge profits by denuding evergreen forests and selling the young saplings to full-grown saps, who in turn stand the trees up in their living rooms, spend hours decorating them and throw their beloved tannenbaums out within the month. Parents who normally admonish their children to shy away from gift-bearing strangers now push their progeny to encourage the pedophilic fantasies of unshaven, porcine figures dressed in red jumpsuits and jackboots...
...Dunster House Black Table is celebrating this week an African harvest festival known as Kwanza...
Kwanza, a Swahili word meaning "the first fruit of the harvest," is celebrated in various forms in many African countries, but has only been revived in the United States in the last 20 years, a spokesman for the African Heritage Institute in Roxbury said yesterday...
Actually, there were ample signs this summer of trouble in the Soviet harvest. In Chicago, grain traders heard reports of big Russian purchases eight weeks ago. And in mid-July the Russians were chartering grain-carrying ships. This was done secretly, through Soviet front companies in Paris; bills of lading were rewritten at sea from "Destination Rotterdam" to "Transshipment Rotterdam, Destination U.S.S.R." Not only was the Russian demand for ships an omen that the U.S.S.R. planned to buy more gram than would be necessary with a good harvest, but it lifted world freight rates by 15%,which should also have...
Agriculture Secretary Robert Bergland insists that the poorer than anticipated Soviet harvest was "probably" caused by a late period of bad weather and does not simply reflect poor intelligence. Indeed, Agriculture picture analysts say they were revising their estimates of the Soviet harvest downward before Brezhnev made his announcement...