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...cash to buy grain abroad. The ironic result is that although American consumers may be forced to pay more for food as a consequence of Soviet grain purchases, Soviet citizens will enjoy bread at artificially low fixed prices. They range in Moscow from 6? for a 1-lb. loaf of tasty black bread to 29? for a loaf made of the finest white flour, probably milled from U.S. grain...
...blunt fashion, Burns predicted that the Russian purchases will cause consumer prices to rise "sharply." Butz insisted that the prices will climb, if at all, only "nominally." Who is right may not become completely clear until fall, but the outcome could well influence not just the price of a loaf of bread but also the 1976 presidential campaign...
...Agriculture Department estimates that less than half of it will be required for domestic consumption. Thus out of an expected crop of some 2.2 billion bushels, only 800 million is needed at home. But as Secretary Butz repeatedly demonstrates by dramatically peeling three slices off an 18-slice loaf of bread, the farmers' income from selling wheat accounts for only one-sixth of the supermarket price of bread. Rising costs of labor, transportation, distribution and packaging are more to blame for high food costs than are any sales abroad...
...Wind syndrome -that can do everything wrong except bore the reader. For seven indefatigable years she has tracked her subject: to New York City, where Carson lived in a household that included W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten and Richard Wright, among others; to the obligatory artists' colonies (Yaddo, Bread Loaf); even to London and Paris. Early on, she grabs her fey and monstrous main character by the toe and never lets go. The ghost of McCullers does the rest...
...father's death. While a village priest swung an incense-filled censer, Jackie, Christina and a score of Aristotle Onassis' closest relatives and friends offered prayers in Ari's behalf. Afterward, worshipers completed the ceremonial rite of passage by eating from a specially decorated 44-lb. loaf of bread-a symbolic act to send the soul of the late shipping magnate heavenward...