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Despite its mushroom crop of high-rise reinforced-concrete buildings, the city today is a worse firetrap than ever. Ichiro Uchibaba, an auto repairman who, as a boy of eight, survived the 1923 quake and firestorm, says: "It's worse today-these 2,000,000 cars and 3,000,-000 kerosene stoves in Tokyo are potential bombs. They would cause millions of fires...
...summer of 1972, a team of Russian trade officials operating out of a New York Hilton Hotel suite coolly bought up-at bargain prices-one-quarter of the entire U.S. wheat crop. Their accomplishment is still being paid for in the form of appallingly high food prices by U.S consumers. The deal, moreover, probably helped bring about a long-overdue end to the era of taxpayer-subsidized underproduction on U.S. farms. The story of how the Soviets nearly managed to corner the market of a U.S. staple under the noncollectivized noses of agriculture officials, grain exporters and the President...
Granted, Harvard starts out with a sort of cream of the crop-probably more honor society members and high school quarterbacks than anyone needs. And, yes, brains mix with brains, producing some fine academic work and some excellent extracurricular groups. But most of all, you will be courted to join the legion of leaders...
Students take different tacks, some relying on friendships and others on study. Both paths work. Gentlemen do not believe in the strict merit system, they hire friends because they know and trust them. Gentlemen also enjoy competence, and hire the best new crop of lawyers or MBAs. And if you are one of the best and the brightest, why not work for the wealthy and the powerful and take the fringe benefits...
...export controls on wheat and other grains to head off domestic shortages and bring prices down. But Administration officials believe, with some reason, that controls might actually make things worse. They suspect, for example, that some of the 1.2 billion bu. of U.S. wheat reportedly bought by foreigners this crop year is not yet firmly committed to export. Instead, it is being held by foreign speculators who will sell it wherever they can get the highest price-which could...