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While U.S. coffee drinkers are paying the highest prices ever for their morning caffeine-General Foods Corp., the largest U.S. coffee marketer, last week raised the wholesale price of its ground coffee by 50?, to a record $4.21 per Ib.-the coffee-growing regions of Central and South America are enjoying a new-found prosperity. Growers in Brazil, for example, were getting $2.33 per Ib. last week for prime coffee beans, four times last year's price. Brazilian officials predict that export earnings from coffee will reach $4.3 billion this year, enough to take the sting...
...peasants scratch out a hardscrabble living raising coffee in tiny backyard jardins, drying the beans on the ground in front of their thatch-roofed mud houses and selling to journeyman brokers. Now that el Exigente will buy anything he can find, they are getting as much as $1.25 per Ib.-unheard-of riches for these people. In Guatemala, Indian laborers who usually are taken from their mountain homes to coffee plantations in open trucks designed to carry cattle have taken advantage of a labor shortage to demand, and get, bus transportation...
Schubert, Symphony No. 9 in C; Debussy, Ibéria and La Mer; Berlioz, Queen Mab Scherzo; Respighi, Feste Romane; Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Strauss, Death and Transfiguration; Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique): The Philadelphia Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting (5 LPs, RCA). When Toscanini made these recordings in 1941-42 with the orchestra Leopold Stokowski had built, it was astonishing, then as now, to note how readily the musicians yielded their lush sound and fat phrasing to the brilliant, transparent, sharply contoured style that Toscanini favored. The resulting interpretations are still splendid to hear-spacious...
...Perdue. Last week, when many chickens were selling for 49? per Ib. in New York-area supermarkets, Perdue broilers fetched 77? per Ib. Frank Perdue, of course, would claim that the premium is justified by the large and juicy breasts of his yellow-skinned chickens (he feeds them marigold petals), but clearly, something is also due to the appeal of his image...
Allende period and the drop in the price of copper, Chile's chief moneymaker, from an average of 930 per Ib. in 1974 to a disastrous 560 in 1975 (it has since recovered...