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Bowing his head over the bottle of Saint-Emilion and a sliced loaf of whole-wheat bread on the living-room table, the priest prayerfully recalled the Last Supper: "And so we remember what Jesus said to his disciples, 'Take and eat, for this is my body.' " The consecration completed, the 24 men and women in the room kissed each other on the cheek or shook hands, as a sign of peace. While a guitar plunked softly in the background, the worshipers shared the bread and wine and sang a hymn from the Mass for Young Americans...
...commodity pits, where the action is faster, the risks greater and the rewards fatter, records have piled up also. Helped by the lower margin requirements-5% to 15% v. the stock market's 70%-speculators are busily buying or selling 37 kinds of commodities ranging from wheat and sugar to orange juice and torn turkeys. Last year a record 10,460,000 contracts were bought and sold; the rate this year is almost the same. Traders lured by the idea of making $10,000 out of pork bellies on a $700 investment constitute a surprising cross section of America...
Surveyor's dramatic recovery overshadowed another space venture involving 1,000 vinegar gnats, 1,000 flour beetles, 560 wasps, 120 frog eggs, 875 amoebae, 13,000 bacteria cells, 78 wheat seedlings, nine pepper plants, 10 million spores of orange bread mold and 64 blue spiderwort. All this was packed aboard a space ark called Biosatellite 2 and launched into earth orbit from Cape Kennedy...
...impact of the space trip on Biosatellite's passengers, some of the results were immediately evident after the parachuting capsule had been plucked from the air over the Pacific by a C-130 recovery plane. Dartmouth Botanist Charles J. Lyon took a look at Bio-satellite's wheat seedlings and found that they had germinated, sending out roots and sprouts that were normal in form but sprawling in unusual directions be cause of the lack of gravity. North American Aviation Plant Physiologist Samuel Johnson opened the pepper plant packages and found their leaves folded down and turned under...
Originally devoted to sheep and cattle, over the years the land has been turned to farming (barley, potatoes, wheat) and later to citrus on a vast scale. The real crop began coming in only a decade or so ago, with the steady outward creep of urban Los Angeles, 35 miles to the north. As the megalopolitan sprawl pressed at its fences, Irvine's real estate value soared to well over $1 billion...