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...near the exit there's a long black car with your initials on the license plates, you may want to instruct Charles to zip you over to Ferdinand's (121 Mt. Auburn St.) or the Harvest (44 Brattle St.), two of the city's more prominent $30 per person eateries. Beware of the stampeding Brahmins and scheming Harvard administrators, both of whom turn up at these spots for lunch...
...poor every day. Nationwide, one-fifth of America's food production is wasted in this and other ways every year. Last week's lunch was staged to announce a resolution just introduced in the House that calls on Government and business to help make this lost harvest available for distribution to the needy...
...Fernando Ed, it seems, is no isolated case. Today illegally grown pot is the nation's fourth largest cash crop. Law-enforcement officials insist that it ranks just behind corn, soybeans and wheat in market value. Last year's marijuana harvest had an estimated street value of $8.5 billion; in each of more than 30 states, law-defying entrepreneurs produced crops worth at least $100 million at retail. California's harvest, worth an almost unbelievable but reasonably documented $1.5 billion at retail, led the list. Hawaii was second; its $750 million crop rivaled the sugar-cane...
Communist nations have fared no better than free-market ones. In the Soviet Union, where factories are increasingly outdated, annual growth has slowed to less than 2%, in contrast with 4.8% only five years earlier. After a third consecutive dismal harvest, the Soviets this year will have to import a record 44 million tons of grain. The Soviets' East European satellites have run up $60 billion in debt to Western governments and banks, including $25 billion owed by Poland alone...
What weakens the Reagan Administration's argument for economic pressure on Moscow is that the U.S. is going ahead with huge sales of grain that are bound to grow even larger as the Soviet Union faces its fourth bad harvest in a row. To help justify this boon for American farmers, the Reagan Administration notes that the grain is paid for in hard cash, thereby imposing real costs on the Soviets. The pipeline equipment, on the other hand, is bought on credit and then earns needed hard currency. To European ears, the argument sounds unconvincing. The U.S. grain still...