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...EVEN MORE excruciating crises are plaguing the world, crises to which we can be but impervious. Looking at newspaper photographs of emaciated women combing the ground for blades of wheat to give their dying children is little different from reading unemployment statistics in Newsweek. We look, shudder, and lament, and then run to make the last feature at the Brattle. Perhaps we could grasp 'the magnitude of the situation if some international group flew in a group of Bengali or Nigerian villagers to Harvard Square, where they would compete with chanting Hare Krishna people for the attention of the people...
Carry Nation. After a brief decline, Wichita boomed again in the late 1880s, this time as a grain market and milling center. During harvest, carts and wagons loaded with wheat lined its streets in columns ten blocks long. Sober homesteaders built schools and churches instead of taverns, and Carry Nation carried her cause into the local saloons. The discovery of large oil reserves in 1915 produced another upswing and catapulted Wichita into the 20th century, attracting men like Walter Beech, Clyde Cessna and Lloyd Stearman, who turned the city into the "air capital of America...
...partly a matter of luck and geography, of being relatively uninvolved in those sectors of the U.S. economy that are in trouble and of participating heavily in those that are still flourishing. As a major regional market and processing center for the farm belt, it is riding with wheat and other farm products in their continuing record prosperity and with Kansas oilmen in the higher prices for their petroleum...
...These are really special circumstances," Praveen Manjunath '76, spokesman for the South Asian Society, said. "Between 500 and 1000 people die in Bangladesh every day and it costs $400 a ton to ship wheat from Canada to the country." Manjunath said the group hopes to raise...
Kissinger had discussed his program with various heads of state on his latest country-spanning diplomatic mission. All had responded favorably, except for Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev. A reserve system would preclude the kind of secrecy-shrouded, bargain-hunting raids on the Western wheat market that have become a hallmark of Soviet trade. The Russians, who guard agricultural intelligence as a state secret, are also hesitant to begin sharing crop information. A high State Department official noted the irony of this ideological role reversal: "We are talking about planning while the Communists are using our old market methods to meet...