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...THREE MUSKETEERS. Richard Lester sends up Dumas without putting him down. Crafted with cheer and opulence, played for good humor and an occasional romantic thrill...
...first race for public office, in 1962, a re-count won Carter a seat in the state senate. After two terms there, he entered the state Democratic gubernatorial primary. Despite an impressive showing by Carter, the winner was Lester Maddox, and Carter returned to supervising his family's 2,500-acre peanut farm...
...Lester R. Brown, a food expert at the Overseas Development Council in Washington, D.C., has suggested that if Americans cut their annual consumption of beef, pork and poultry - currently estimated at 238 lbs. per capita - by only 10%, they could supply the rest of the world with an additional 12 million tons of grain to feed the globe's hungry people...
Urged into politics by two friends, Common Cause Chairman John Gardner and the late Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson, Longley became disillusioned by the ineffectiveness of both major parties. Running independently, he conducted his campaign with the same hard-driving efficiency that marked his business success. Dozens of college-age volunteers, many recruited by his two daughters, Sue, 18, and Kathy, 21, gave the campaign a populist image, while substantial financial support came from associates in the insurance business. Most important, his almost messianic pitch that efficient business-type management could shave $25 million from Maine's state budget...
...world's reserves* of grain have reached a 22-year low, equal to about 26 days' supply, compared with a 95-day supply in 1961, according to Lester Brown, a leading U.S. food expert. Low harvests and high prices have forced the traditional surplus-producing nations to curtail the amount of food that they normally give as aid to the hungry nations. For example, unless the U.S. adopts an expanded program, American aid this year will drop 50% in some categories. Sales of food are also shrinking. Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, Burma and the Common Market nations have restricted...