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Traders on La Salle Street expect a shortage of many crops, and with good reason: demand for U.S. grains is increasing faster than farmers can harvest their fields. In July the U.S. made a billion-dollar deal to supply Russia with wheat and other crops. Then China bought wheat from the U.S.; now India needs wheat to avert a potential famine. The U.S. Department of Agriculture anticipated bumper crops this year-but then the rains came. Since September, the beginning of the Midwest's harvest season, unprecedentedly heavy rains and freezing temperatures have repeatedly mired farmers' machinery...
...heavy demand and rising labor costs, prices for premium Cabernet Sauvignon grapes have jumped from $305 a ton to about $ 1,000. They will rise still higher as a result of a tight supply. Because of a spring frost and August heat-wave damage, the 1972 California grape harvest, which was completed last month, was the smallest in 30 years. Those grapes are now fermenting, and when 1972 wines reach the market next year, some may carry price tags that are as much as 20% higher. In the Napa Valley, a prime growing region north of San Francisco, almost...
...plentiful and rainfall consistent, one year's wine is not much different from the next. To help maintain uniformity further, many California vintners blend wines from different years to mask annual variations in quality. The trained tongue, however, can detect some yearly differences. This year's harvest, some of which will be on the shelves by next spring, will definitely be distinguished; the spring frost reduced the number of grapes on each vine, and surviving grapes had less competition for minerals from the soil...
...hurts of her early years not as obstacles but as spurs; she underlines this view with the title of her newly published autobiography: Blackberry Winter (William Morrow; $8.95). To country people, that term designates the time when frost nips the blackberry blossoms-and thus, paradoxically, ensures a rich harvest...
...many measures, Mead has reaped such a harvest. She has made twelve field trips to the South Seas (where the natives, with affectionate respect, call her "Miss Markit Mit"). She has written 26 books and hundreds of articles about her findings in Oceania, her observations on Western society, and her conception of anthropology (a science that can "protect the future" by shedding light on "what man has been and is"). Though this prodigious output has brought her many honors, she has also received her share of criticism. Some scientists have charged that her methods are imprecise and that her broad...