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...take to the highways in cars and buses, producing traffic jams up to 17 miles long. In St. Louis, General Motors shut down its truck plant and laid off 2,350 workers after running out of parts usually delivered by rail. And in Maine, the Acton Corp., the largest purveyor of brown eggs in the country, narrowly averted a foul-up when it sent five trucks to bring in 100 tons of corn, thereby ensuring that its 4 million DeKalb hens would not miss dinner after...
...instability of a fractured world. Straited by a narrow, dualistic vision of world events, the government ignores pressing and unique problems indigenous to different regions. The U.S. sells AWACs to a nation that has declared undying hatred of a close American ally, a conviction that America is only a purveyor of arms, and a desire for friendship with the Soviet Union. It sends a stream of arms into a region traumatized by civil war, in the hope of propping up repressive, but nominally pro-American regimes...
Though one shouldn't complain about the purveyor of such gloriously purient prose, it is tempting to wonder why Higgins doesn't try something a little more ambitious now that he has buffed the Boston low-life novel to such a perfect shine. The Patriot Game, in fact, would have been an excellent opportunity, because in it he touches on--but ultimately skirts--the issues of the American Irish feelings for their embattled brethren overseas. Jimmy Breslin, also a member in good-standing of the tough-guy school, made such an attempt in World Without End, Amen. Higgins implies that...
Ironically, one key purveyor of the bad news to the Soviets has been the U.S. Department of Agriculture. So accurate have its forecasts of Soviet yields proved in the past that the distribution of DOA news bulletins in Washington this summer regularly attracted Soviet journalists. According to U.S. specialists who have analyzed satellite photos of Soviet farm land and who have also visited rural areas, the 1981 grain yield will amount to less than 185 million metric tons-21.6% below the target of 236 million in the current Soviet five-year plan. Grain production will be up imperceptibly from...
...years later, on scholarship to the august Berlin Academy of Music, he lived on yogurt so he would not have to skimp on his record collection. Production-assistant jobs around various Munich recording studios kept him in curds and vinyl until he met up with Karl Egger, a burly purveyor of discount audio and records. Egger suggested to Eicher that they record displaced American jazzmen who had fled the rock-dominated music biz back home for the burgeoning jazz scene in Munich. "It was an era," Eicher recalls, "when the new artists were there to be grabbed...