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...Daniloff would quote lines of poetry to mark his release from Soviet imprisonment. Here was an incident that filled the news for a month, that brought the world's two titans into open confrontation, that in the end, perhaps, prodded them to agree on the presummit summit. Yet to cap off those momentous political events, Daniloff, the center of the storm, reached back into art for a poem by Mikhail Lermontov written almost 150 years ago for another world and circumstance. Grant that it was more diplomatic of Daniloff to quote Lermontov's exasperation with Mother Russia than to express...
...pair of glasses (mine have not been changed in four or five years and the bifocal is no longer right for my vision). This would probably cost one half of a cow or about $130. I also have two teeth badly in need of repair -- one needs a cap in order to save it and the other is in pretty bad shape also -- will probably cost two cows or about $500. Also electric bills are continuing for the poultry house and will need to be paid soon. How will the auctioneer be paid? How will you be paid? Is there...
...hard job that has frustrated such gifted performers as John Prine and Joe Ely. Still, Earle has strong qualifications. He can sing Springsteen's spooky, poignant State Trooper and make it his own. He looks like the guy one stool over at the truck stop, with a Peterbilt cap and a waistline that has seen a little too much barbecue, but he reads Faulkner, Steinbeck and Hemingway and points out that "you can't write if you don't read...
...time for the evening news, Soviet style. The camera focuses on a man with a battered purple baseball cap as he chats with local factory workers. With a friendly, lopsided grin, he says in passable Russian, "Well, I'm just a simple worker." He switches to English and adds through a Soviet interpreter, "I'm ashamed to say it about my country, but in New York there are 60,000 people without a roof over their heads...
...farm act gave the Secretary of Agriculture the authority to slash the basic loan rates to force farm prices down and make American products more attractive overseas. But Congress cushioned the impact of lower prices on farmers by increasing cash subsidies. Moreover, the lawmakers relaxed a $50,000 cap on payments to individual farmers...