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...bath for an entire year. In 1952, Burroughs completed Junky, a clinically realistic portrait of his addiction. Allen Ginsberg, who had met Burroughs while an undergraduate at Columbia, peddled Junky all over New York and finally found a publisher in Carl Solomon, whom he had met in a looney bin. The acceptance of Junky by Ace Books encouraged Burroughs to continue writing...
Grain farmers had bin-bursting harvests in 1979, and that was for the fifth year in a row. Farmers raised a record 7.6 billion bu. of corn. Much of it, 60%, will be used as animal feed; only about 10% will be consumed directly by Americans, usually in bread, breakfast cereal and fructose (a sweetener). The remainder, before Carter's embargo, was destined for export, along with 36% of the 1979 crop of soybeans and 60% of the year's wheat. The embargo is expected to reduce overall exports from the '79 grain crop by 8%. Most export grain travels...
...Sheng Bin Chiu '79, dorm crew supervisor at the time the letters were discovered in the closet of a Winthrop House room, remembered handing the letters to Winthrop House Superintendent Ben Bartie on the last day of the clean-up in June. Bartie said he does not remember receiving the letters...
Rotenberg, said yesterday, he gave the letters to Sheng-Bin Chiu '79, the dorm crew supervisor who graduated in June, and returned to Malaysia., "Maybe he took them back with him." Rotenberg added...
This year they have a different gripe: labor disputes are plaguing the nation's overburdened crop distribution system at a time when bin-busting harvests and a high export demand augur a booming farm economy. Since late August the United Transportation Union and the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks have halted operations on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, which serves 1,680 grain elevators in the Midwest. And for almost three months a strike by the American Federation of Grain Millers has closed the 13 huge grain elevators in the port of Duluth-Superior, stopping...