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...That prospect???though it may not actually come true?filled many farmers with indignation. Some of them gathered glumly at local grain elevators, the first stop for much U.S. grain after it leaves farm storage bins. At Secor, Ill., four farmers watched the prices fall on a TV screen. "I don't think the shock has hit them," said Manager John Aeschliman. Just before the embargo he bought corn at up to $2.96 a bu.; his first purchase last week was from a scared farmer at $2.12 a bu. At the Pro-Farmer elevator in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, two farmers...
Unless their African hosts insist that the Russians and Cubans go home?an unlikely prospect???or unless Moscow and Havana see it in their self-interest to reduce tensions on the continent, the West will continue to face an ideological war for influence in Africa. In what amounts to a new scramble for the continent, the Russians and the Cubans have been devising their own rules for the game of African political influence. To offset such influence in so fragile a setting, the U.S. and its allies must do some contingency planning of their...
That kind of collective work?with no profit, or any kind of individual reward, in prospect???made me feel that I belonged not merely in my immediate family at home, or even the big family of the village, but in something vaster and more significant: the land. It was that feeling that made me, on the way home at sunset, watch the evening scene with a rare warmth, recognizing an invisible bond of love and friendship with everything around me?smoke rolling down the valley, promising a delicious meal at the close of a village day, and perfect calm...
Until Seaver started mowing down collegiate batsmen at U.S.C., he had appeared to be anything but a prize major league prospect???even in his own eyes. "I frankly thought I was too small," says Seaver, who now stands 6 ft. 1 in. and weighs a respectable 200 Ibs. "I had decided to become a dentist." He was still fairly small when he graduated from high school, he recalled recently, "but there was one advantage in it. I couldn't throw hard enough to rely on my fastball, so I concentrated on sliders and curves...
...still widely divided but greatly encouraged Democracy Mr. Shouse loomed last week as the most powerful non-candidate-for-office, the man who?with a continued decline of Republican sway in prospect???had the greatest chance of any Democrat of shaping U. S. history in the next two years...
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