Word: home-grown
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Peeks & Pathos. The biweekly series got off winging in September with a charming lope through Spoleto, Italy, where Composer Gian Carlo Menotti was preparing his home-grown annual music festival. Bell's camera crews spent seven weeks with Menotti. They peeked in as he attended rehearsals, chatted with visitors in three languages, and finally paraded ecstatically through congratulatory mobs in Spoleto's town square on the night of his birthday. Musically, the program equaled anything that Bell was ever able to do in the studio, with Sviatoslav Richter as the pianist in the Shostakovich Quintet and Zubin Mehta...
Somber as it is, Noon Wine induced a special glow, partly because of Director Peckinpah's achievement in adhering to the bluntness of the tragedy, partly because of the ungirdled brilliance of his players. Robards, bedecked with a massive home-grown mustache, spread backwoods brio all over the crusty landscape, and Olivia de Havilland, all frailty and flutteriness, tottered after him without losing a step. Author Porter was astonished that show busi ness could be so kind. "After what they did to my poor Ship of Fools," she said last week, "I was just crushed. I didn...
...wheat producer uses irrigation, for the simple reason that the method is so costly that other nations prefer to grow more profitable crops and buy the wheat abroad. But the Soviet Union is apparently so set on self-sufficiency that it is willing to pay almost any price for home-grown grain...
...Paige, 41, he supplies a hard-to-find essential of slum rehabilitation: responsible home-grown leadership. Working by night as a boiler fireman for the city's Sanitation Department to support his wife and two teen-age sons, he customarily cuts his sleep to five or six hours to spend more of his day struggling to get people on his block to "participate." Says Gypsum's Obey: "If Paige can keep these people together, we'll be all right...
Instead of financing the development of expensive home-grown weapons, Britain will buy much of its gear for the 1970s from the U.S., a decision that strikes a severe blow at Britain's lowflying aircraft industry (see WORLD BUSINESS). The R.A.F.'s new bomber force will be 50 swing-wing General Dynamics F-111A's, which Britain is buying from the U.S. for $297.5 million. The navy will be outfitted with four U.S.-type Polaris submarines, and the army will be regrouped in a few strategically located bases (Singapore, Bahrein, Gibraltar) from which units can be quickly...