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...eleven grandchildren skiing in two weeks. (Nitze has two sons and two daughters; there is also one great-grandchild so far, but at age three he is not yet up to the intermediate slopes that Nitze favors.) On his 1,900-acre farm in Maryland, which produces corn, soybeans, wheat, cattle, pigs and sheep, he keeps 16 horses and rides on weekends. He owns a summer house on an island in Maine, where he played tennis almost every day last August. Serious tennis. Once, a much younger man whom Nitze had just trounced in singles asked him how he kept...
...laments Chief Elder Muboulle Osman, a tall, worried-looking man of about 50. "There are 72,000 people in this area, and we have no food, not even grazing for our animals. Without this," he gestures toward a long, green tarpaulin piled high with wheat flour, beans and grain, "we would starve...
...food donations outside Wukro quietly sit on their haunches. One man, Gebre Yohanes Haile, 50, has brought along his chief resource: his ox. His family is sick with hunger, and so only he and the animal made the journey. Thus he will receive just one ration: twelve kilos of wheat, two of beans and two of oil. He will sell his ox for $200, and then pay $150 for 100 kilos of grain, twice the usual cost. "We have food for today," Gebre says. "I don't know about tomorrow...
Those clouds, though, could not dampen the 1987 harvest. Despite all the idle farmland, wheat production was up 1% from last year's sizable crop, to 2.1 billion bu., while the soybean crop also rose 1%, to 2 billion bu. Good weather resulted in especially strong yields in Iowa, which vaulted past Illinois to become the top producer of corn and soybeans...
...soup, roast-beef hash and, in more sophisticated moments, the Italian veal-shank dish called osso buco). Haller presents some macabre juxtapositions of historic events with personal reminiscences. To get through his difficult final hours in the White House, Richard Nixon requested a breakfast more substantial than his usual wheat germ and coffee. Haller rustled up corned-beef hash with a poached egg. Nixon ate it in his favorite Lincoln Sitting Room, then signed the resignation handed to him by Alexander Haig...