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...Hyde's Climb...
...forces driving up U.S. living costs, none has been more powerful than the two-year climb in the prices of American farm goods, which has kicked the nation's food bill to record levels. The prime cause of the boom has been the global demand for American-grown food. More recently, speculators bid up U.S. farm prices higher than even the heavy press of foreign orders warranted. Now, however, American consumers are getting the first signals that the worst is over. Since late February, prices on the Chicago Board of Trade and other commodities markets have been falling along...
ACTORS ARE A fragile, bizarre breed. Their eccentricities and insecurities are probably linked to the nature of their livelihood. They grope for recognition and an intangible goal called "the top" only to defend the niche from eager young talents. To attempt the climb one must be hooked--on laughter, on audiences, on applause...
...Johnson administration's war policy during his November visit to Cambridge for a seminar at the new Institute of Politics, SDS called for a demonstration outside the Quincy House seminar. When McNamara emerged from Quincy House, 800 protesters blocked the surrounding streets and mobbed his car, forcing him to climb on its hood and agree to answer question "for five minutes." "How many South Vietnamese civilians have we killed?" someone asked McNamara said he didn't know, and there were angry shouts of "Don't you care?" University policeman managed to whisk McNamara into McKinlock Hall, through the kitchen tunnels...
...Securities and Exchange Commission, and John W. Dean III, once the trusted counsel to the President, offered damning testimony against Mitchell, 60, and Stans, 66. In one of the bitter ironies of the case, both witnesses were giving evidence against old associates who had helped them to climb to power...