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...biggest headache for farmers is the growing glut of wheat. Last week the Agriculture Department forecast that despite last winter's drought and destructive winds, this year's winter wheat crop would come to 1.53 billion bu., only about 3% less than last year's mammoth harvest. The total crop, including spring wheat (harvested in the fall), is expected to be about 2 billion bu. That would be slightly less than the record 2.15 billion bu. crop in 1976-but still more than U.S. and foreign buyers combined are likely...
...harvest of Roots has yet to make Author Alex Haley feel relaxed. Though he will garner at least $5 million from his book, Haley's comet is sputtering. He is dead tired. He has been out on the lecture circuit or visiting Gambia or receiving honorary degrees almost every day of the month. As for his megabucks, Haley says that so far they have enabled him only to get out of debt-a feat that might in itself rank as the differentiating factor between the rich and the merely upwardly mobile...
Even if existing laws were enforced, Cousteau said he feels that more comprehensive and equitable international regulations would be necessary to control the harvest and distribution of ocean fish and mineral resources...
...Dolly is ready for Light of a Clear Blue Morning, the declaration of artistic independence that leads off her latest RCA album, New Harvest... First Gathering. It opens with a piano solo of almost folklike simplicity. Her singing is at first similarly low-keyed...
...style is really not all that radical, considering the cross-fertilization of modes that country rock has brought in recent years. If Elton John or the Rolling Stones can dabble in country, why can't Dolly flirt with rock? She does it expertly, as her New Harvest album makes clear. Those pounding drums and buzzing electric basses on her own How Does It Feel do not disguise Dolly's country touch, just give it greater aural depth...