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...first child shortly after birth, doctors found she had a congenital uterine problem. In the past, they might have dissuaded her from becoming pregnant again. Instead they performed corrective surgery and encouraged her to try once more. Twice she gave birth-once to a baby weighing only 1 Ib. 13 oz. Both infants survived and are now, at ages 5 and 2½, healthy, normal youngsters...
...these trips, smiling often and enjoying particularly the unconventional displays of piety that greeted him in the Third World. In Western Samoa in 1970, he stood before an outdoor altar in the blazing sun while eight sarong-draped men came forward, bearing on their shoulders an immense 400-Ib. pig, a traditional Samoan gift. In Uganda he was delighted by a platoon of blue-haltered, red-skirted dancing girls who met the papal jet in Kampala. More somberly, especially in his Third World visits, Paul made a point of seeking out the poorest neighborhoods. In India in 1964, he wept...
World sugar prices have plummeted from 65? per Ib. in 1974 to 7? today. That is good news for consumers, particularly for the country's biggest user, Coca-Cola Co. Each 1? drop in sugar prices saves Coke $20 million a year. But the tumbling prices are bad news for domestic growers of sugar cane and sugar beets, who contend they need a price of 17? per Ib. to meet their production costs...
...price fluctuations set the stage for a bitter controversy that has raged in Washington for months. Senator Frank Church of Idaho has turned beet red and Senator Russell Long of Louisiana has raised cane in an attempt to boost Government price supports for sugar, now 13.5? per Ib., to 17?. They are opposed by the Carter Administration, which insists that a price floor higher than 14.4? per Ib. would be inflationary. Last week the battle turned ugly when makers of corn fructose (a sugar substitute) accused the Administration of withholding documents needed to prove their charge that Carter...
...Carter rejected suggestions for import quotas and adopted a temporary program to pay producers up to 2? per lb. whenever the price of sugar dipped below 13.5? per Ib. The program was to stay in effect until Congress approved the International Sugar Agreement to stabilize world prices at between 15? and 19? per Ib. through Government stockpiling. Instead, Congress amended the farm bill, which became law Oct. 1, with a program of loan supports, tariffs and import fees intended to satisfy producers of both kinds of sweetener...