Word: bu
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Saturday was no day for football. Ask any of the 5000 spectators who sogged through four quarters of the Harvard-BU contest. Ask the stadium vendors who had to sell soggy popcorn. Ask Box Jox, who cancelled on their Crimson football commitment. Ask Boston University coach Larry Navisux...
...Washington with the Soviet deputy of foreign trade in May, and announced his intention to resign two days later. He joined Continental on June 8 -and on July 2, he escorted the Soviet grain buyers on a sightseeing tour of Washington, D.C. On July 5, Continental sold 150 million bu. of wheat and 41 million tons of feed grains to Russia. This was three days before the Administration announced its big grain deal. After the announcement, Continental quickly sold Russia another 37 million bu. of wheat...
When Palmby denied bringing any inside information to Continental, no one on the committee pressed him on why Continental sold wheat at precisely the same terms as those announced three days later by the White House. No one questioned why Continental would commit itself to selling 150 million bu. to Russia without some assurance that the Agriculture Department would protect its price by raising the export subsidy-as it later did. Because of the amount of money involved, Continental apparently risked heavy losses without such assurance...
Edith Stearns performs piano works by Scarlatti. Brahms. Debussy and Rachmaninoff tonight at 8 at BU's School of Fine and Applied Arts Concert Hall...
...American politics, Novak's plea for ethnic power can sound like the oldest American politics; one hears the rhetoric of a new Tammany promising the Slovak grandmother prune dumplings in the sky. In his general plea for decentralization - down with the bu reaucrats, up with neighborhood government - Novak seems on sounder ground, though he fails to prove that ethnic self-consciousness is the key. What validates the book is Novak's very recklessness - his willingness to sweep beyond defendable limits. This is the price he knowingly pays for a modest act of hope at a time when most...