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...world, concern about food shortages grows. In Rome last week, Addeke H. Boerma, director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, called officials of five major farming nations, including the U.S., to an urgent conference Sept. 20 that will consider ways to deal with a threatened global wheat pinch. U.S. agriculture, long regarded as a bottomless cornucopia whose output had to be deliberately held down, has suddenly seemed unable to turn out all the food that Americans and foreigners want...
Dreben inherits a graduate school in the midst of a financial tailspin. The graduate students have felt the pinch more than others, and have responded with a demand to see the GSAS budget to determine for themselves the extent of the crisis...
...pinch on U.S. supplies of grain and beef is only part of a worldwide scarcity of raw materials. For almost every important commodity - meat, wheat, rice, soybeans, wool, cocoa, copper, lead, rubber- world production is falling behind ravenous demand, and hectic bidding for supplies is rocketing prices. A Reuters index of commodity prices leaped 91% in the twelve months ended July...
...lists, much room for personal interpretation and no conflict with existing beliefs. Most importantly, there is the daily reinforcement of meditation--the experience of the Divine Light, which claims no intellectual content, and therefore cannot be challenged by the intellect. Maharaj Ji likens the receiving of knowledge to a pinch--something that cannot be understood until it is experienced...
Detroit Outfielder Gates Brown, for one, hopes that he does because "this may be his last go-round in life." Brown should know. Recruited out of an Ohio reform school ten years ago, he has be come one of the Tigers' most reliable pinch hitters. "1 was able to take advantage of my opportunity," he says, "and I hope LeFlore can too." He had also best take advantage of opposing pitchers: after two weeks with the Clinton Pilots, LeFlore was batting a dismal .125. The ex-con rookie is confident that his hit ting will improve once he overcomes...