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...Soviet Union is suffering from its worst food shortages since the crop failures of 1963-as Agriculture Minister Vladimir Matskevich recently acknowledged. Such admissions are rare. As Russian trade officials in Washington pressed last week for rapid delivery of 11 million tons of American wheat and other foodstuffs, the Soviet press maintained silence about the $ 1.5 billion worth of agricultural produce the U.S.S.R. has contracted to purchase from the West through June...
When Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell died in 1970, he left be hind an unexplained fortune of $2,000,000, including $800,000 in cash stashed away in shoeboxes in a Springfield hotel. To celebrate the second anniversary of Powell's demise, the Rev. Donald Wheat, pastor of the Third Unitarian Church of Chicago, held a memorial service last week. "If we hold services for Gandhi, Washington, Lincoln and other greats," explained the pastor, "then maybe people like Powell should be remembered by their constituents...
Powell was given a service with all the trimmings. After reading the parable of the rich fool, Wheat followed up with a nursery rhyme, The Crooked Man. Wheat reviewed Powell's career: twice voted the state's outstanding legislator, named Man of the Year by veterans' groups. He recalled how Powell's secretary, affectionately known as "Little Bit," accompanied the old pol on his last trip and tried, unsuccessfully, to spirit away the shoeboxes before authorities discovered them. Wheat wound up with a favorite Powell quote:"There's only one thing worse than a defeated...
POLITICAL controversy has raged for months over the Nixon Administration's openhanded use of agricultural subsidies, and particularly over the subsidized wheat deal with the Soviets. But another huge increase in federal giveaways to a troubled-and politically powerful-industry has gone almost unnoticed. Government assistance to U.S. shipbuilders and ship operators, who run some of the world's least competitive businesses, rose from $290 million in fiscal 1969 to more than $500 million in the current fiscal year. Last week, while simultaneously trying to make Congress slap a strict limit on federal spending as a whole, President...
...than the dietary approach to health. The Food and Drug Administration has found that one out of every five Americans believes that illness can be avoided if only they gulp enough vitamins and mineral supplements or give up processed breakfast foods for cereals made from organically grown nuts and wheat grains. Americans spend $320 million a year on vitamin pills alone, additional millions on so-called "organic" or "health" foods. Last week crowds of the faithful and their suppliers gathered at New York's Madison Square Garden for a nutritional circus called the second International Health Fair. TIME asked...