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Crimson: Like the Kennedy assassinations, conspiracy theories abound about the Hiss case. Have you discovered anything that would link the FBI, or anyone involved in the case, to a frame-up of Hiss, whether through forgery by typewriter or tampering with witnesses...
...Tract, a 32,000-acre expanse of hardwood forest and bottom land straddling a 35-mile stretch of Mississippi's Pascagoula River. There he enjoys basking in the primeval beauty of one of the state's last unspoiled areas. White-tailed deer, black bears and game birds abound in the forested region, fish thrive in its sandy-shored oxbow lakes, and the river runs clean. "I drink from it," claims the balding Murrah. "It'll make your hair fall out, but it won't kill...
Coat of Arms. Superstition and tribal customs still abound in the Transkei, though there are many signs of modernization. The lobola (bride price) was once reckoned only in cows (ten was the average). Today transistor radios are increasingly acceptable as a partial substitute, and so are Western-style clothes. Livestock farming is the main occupation, but there are factories for making matches, textiles and cutlery. A university is planned that will ultimately cost $80 million (though at present only 6% of all Transkeian children reach secondary school). The territory even has a new coat of arms-two leopards, a bull...
...Brown feels comfortable attempting to trace the chain of causality that led to the arrests of two weeks ago, yet theories abound. Some students--especially those most deeply involved in the pro-strike activities of the past several weeks--feel that the strike has thrown the campus back to a '60s-like milieu; the classic confrontation between Administration and Radical Student is again being played out, but with an internal labor dispute, rather than a war, the principal bone of contention. They point out, perhaps justifiably, that the only movement in the strike--which began, for nearly 350 service workers...
...Swiss chemist whose research into the makeup of hydrocarbons won him the 1939 Nobel Prize; in Zurich. Ruzicka was the first to synthesize the male hormone, testosterone, and he identified the various chemical compounds that produce the distinctive flavor of the raspberry. The artificially fruit-flavored foods that abound today are a result of his findings...