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...their wheat crop at about $1.35 a bu. in the early summer of 1972, before the Soviet purchases and heavy buying by other nations helped push the price received by farmers to more than $2 a bu. Congressmen are miffed that grain companies and ship operators collected needless federal subsidies. Shippers are recovering from a nationwide transportation tie-up that resulted from grain dealers' scrambling for freight cars to transport grain, much of it to the Soviets. Consumers have particularly good reason for anger: the deal contributed to a grain shortage in the U.S., driving up prices for bread...
...greatest poetry of any character in the canon. In real life we don't often find military, compositional and oratorical genius combined in one man--though we had a recent example, starting with the same three letters, in Douglas MacArthur (the comparison shouldn't be pushed any further, needless to say). Macbeth must start off as an admirable person, sink into murder after murder, and bounce back somewhat at the end, winning our pity as a tragic hero despite his crimes. Not easy, but it can be done...
...women and youngsters behind bars in the U.S. today, and before the year ends, perhaps as many as a thousand will die there, many of conditions that would be considered both treatable and curable outside the walls. Thousands more will suffer from illness and discomfort so needless that they amount to cruel and unusual punishment. With few exceptions, inmates of the nation's correctional institutions must either go without medical care entirely or make do with treatment that is far below accepted standards...
...parade was a thoroughly satisfying-and justified-demonstration of their nation's sophisticated war machinery. Not everyone, though, was all that happy about it. Dayan and Foreign Minister Abba Eban initially opposed the idea of a military parade during the celebrations. Dayan argued that it was a needless expenditure of $6,000,000. Both, however, closed ranks with the rest of the Cabinet once the decision was made...
...Needless to say, Sciolla scored as right fielder Kelly committed an unpardonable error, letting Smith's fly ball slip past his glove to give Hal two bases and Harvard the tying run. Smith followed Sciolla shortly thereafter as McGregor singled him home...