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Suddenly an old woman says, "He's here," and in strides a thin, bearded priest wearing the black beret and the worn, ill-fitting country cleric's suit that are his trademarks. The priest laughs and shakes hands with everyone. After he celebrates Mass, with a loaf of bread fetched hurriedly from the kitchen, there is a steak-and-rice lunch for 200. Wealthy bankers are squeezed in at the tables next to ex-convicts and recovered alcoholics...
...most of their lives," coped gracefully with primitive life. Building the communal hut took more than two months. Using ancient tools, the group chopped wood for 72 rafters, fashioned a conical thatched roof and sides out of wattle (interwoven hazel branches) and daub (mud and animal hair). Making a loaf of bread the Celtic way took nearly a day. Fashioning clay storage pots took longer, and the early pottery tended to crack over the fire-until the novices got the hang of their craft. Says Helen Elphick: "We were all very frustrated...
...world, it boasts a 9.7-acre roof, 9,000 tons of air conditioning, 32 escalators, ten elevators and 88 rest rooms. It has served more sit-down dinners in one place than any other caravansary in history: 65,000 meals in three days (Creole chicken, stuffed flounder and meat loaf) to the Lutheran Youth Gathering in August 1976. It has the world's largest roll-up rug, a 126,85 l-sq.-ft., zippered greensward of AstroTurf that the locals fondly call Mardi Grass. Also the biggest set of TV tubes: six superscreens, each 22 ft. wide...
...Soviet purchases should have little, if any, impact, however, on prices at the supermarket. With grain prices so depressed, it would take a huge jump in the farm cost of wheat, for example, to add even 20 or 30 to the price of a loaf of bread. Stung most by the Russians' ploy will be the big grain speculators, who were selling grain futures contracts short this spring and summer in the expectation that prices would fall even lower. The Soviet shortfall changed all that and taught the speculators-as well as Washington officials-a little more about...
...course the students all secretly hope that they will be "discovered" at a conference. Occasionally that dream comes true, as it did for soft-spoken Tom Gavin, now an assistant professor at Middlebury. He first went to Bread Loaf as a contributor in 1973, with 75 pages of manuscript under his arm. "What I needed was someone to say 'Hey, you're on the right track,' " recalls Gavin. He was duly encouraged and returned the next year with 125 pages, which Gardner then analyzed, suggesting a revision in the rhythm. This year Tom Gavin was back...