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...record level, and the Agriculture Department estimates that less than half of it will be required for domestic consumption. Thus out of an expected crop of some 2.2 billion bushels, only 800 million is needed at home. But as Secretary Butz repeatedly demonstrates by dramatically peeling three slices off an 18-slice loaf of bread, the farmers' income from selling wheat accounts for only one-sixth of the supermarket price of bread. Rising costs of labor, transportation, distribution and packaging are more to blame for high food costs than are any sales abroad...
...Soviet elite is enjoying the biggest slice of the steady growth in national wealth. "There's more pie and more fat flies to share it," notes a Leningrad sociologist. On the woody outskirts of Moscow, the birch-shaded grounds of Khrushchev's old dacha at Petrovo-Dalneye are being torn up to make room for rows of mini-dachas, which look like motel cabins, for middle-rung apparatchiks. The system of special stores for top people, stocked with Western goods and local caviar, is expanding...
...second kind of reaction against slice-of-life dramaturgy and realistic settings, Wilder dispensed almost entirely with scenery and props. "In a 1941 exposition of his theory of drama, he said a play should be aimed at the group mind and be based on pretense. Later he wrote that "the novel is preeminently the vehicle of the unique occasion, the theater of the generalized...
...same judges are sitting in both cases, and a Justice Department official, with a lawyer's infinite capacity to slice fine, claims that the two cases are really entirely different. On the one hand, it is not claimed that the President had specifically ordered the Ellsberg breakin; and if he had, standard law-enforcement procedure would have been to go through the Attorney General. On the other hand, the FBI was given authority for the J.D.L. bugging by the Attorney General, who has repeatedly claimed the right to act without a court order in national security cases involving foreign...
...will make Britain self-sufficient and by 1990 the nation will be one of the world's top seven oil producers. Trouble is, the country has already in effect mortgaged much of its eventual oil income by borrowing abroad to maintain today's living standards. A big slice of the oil money will be swallowed by repayment of foreign borrowings, which last year equaled a startling 5% of Britain's gross national product...