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...outright enemy from which any and all secrets must be prudently guarded. It is easy to forget that the trial took place only after America and Russia were wartime allies--so that it was in the Rosenberg case itself that many of the seeds of the Cold War were sown...
...winner would certainly be Julian Schnabel, 30. The 1981-82 art season drenched him in publicity: not accidentally, since his main patron is Charle Saatchi, the English advertising man who also takes care of the public image of Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party. The art world was diligently sown with rumors that his paintings were selling for $30,000, $50,000 or $75,000, though no one was on record as actually paying such sums for the work of the new stupor mundi, and the press showed its usual gullibility about the steep differences between publicity price, asking price...
...tried to figure out where the seeds of my antmostly were sown and I've decided that it was in RFK Stadium in Washington. D. C., where the Washington Senators used to play Filled with fatherly ambition, my father once took my older sister and me to a Senators game there, where he hoped to share some of his enthusiasm with...
...House has allowed the competition to ripen. Indeed, Weinberger has been "committing foreign policy," as he puts it, more vigorously than any Secretary of Defense since Robert McNamara two decades ago. The dissonance between Weinberger's generally hawkish views and the usually more moderate approach of Haig has sown doubt about the U.S. approach toward countries ranging from El Salvador to Poland, and nowhere more so than in the ever volatile Middle East...
...seeds of the first revolution-high-yield, fertilizer-hungry super-grains-were sown all over the world in the 1960s. Bread-bare countries like Mexico and Iran were soon exporting wheat, the Philippines became self-sufficient in rice, even Pakistan had a harvest surplus. But soaring oil prices pushed the cost of essential petrochemical fertilizers out of reach of all but the wealthiest countries. Today nearly every country "revolutionized" by the Green Revolution is importing food from the world's half-dozen grain exporters, most notably...