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...reveled in the rain, and mountain ski operators romped in the snow-but federal weather experts warned of ominous signs that the blocking pressure "high" might be reforming. It was also clear that the accumulated moisture was but a drop in the bucket of water needed to prevent massive crop failures, hydroelectric power shortages, widespread economic losses, and mounting tensions over water allocations this summer and fall...
...with the innovations of C. Graham Hurlbut, former director of Food Services and current director of Administrative Services. Hurlbut's baby is "on site cooking"--that is, cooking done in the House's small supporting kitchens rather than the central facilities. This probably accounts for the differences that now crop up in an otherwise standardized system...
...CROP OF biographies appearing in bookstores recently has been grim, glutted with post-Watergate tales of sin, the Fall, and redemption by the likes of Haldeman, Colson, Dean, Magruder and, eventually Nixon. So Tony Hiss '63 does us all a service with his bittersweet offering Laughing Last, a readable and engaging biography (if it can be classified as such) of his father, Alger Hiss. While the Nixon gang and assorted witnesses and prosecutors continue to churn out bestsellers, this slim volume may be lost in the flood tide of confessions, which is a shame, because Hiss brings a great deal...
With his cavalry riding crop, peppery General of Division José Hernández Toledo, 55, taps at a map of the near-unpenetrable 35,000-sq.-mi. area that his troops intend to cover during the next four months. He outlines their objective in bluntest terms: "I will stay here until I have completed the mission my President gave me-rid the mountains of this curse." Adds an aide: "You had better advise New York that Mexican Brown is going to be in short supply from...
...impact: drugs are scarcer on U.S. streets, but how long-lasting that will be is still difficult to determine. U.S. narcotics agents are impressed by the aggressive Mexican efforts, but they have also learned in Nepal, Turkey and Southeast Asia that peasants who have finally found a lucrative cash crop can be wily and aggressive. In Mexico the destruction of planted fields and the arrests of several overlords, including Jorge Favela-a local godfather who has been sought in half a dozen other countries for drug trading-have led to fierce internecine battles for control of the business. The favored...