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...Bumper Crop. Garrison immediately proclaimed him "one of history's most important individuals" and said that he would have arrested him this week. The District Attorney, Ferrie had told reporters, believed that he had been the getaway pilot for Lee Harvey Oswald's coconspirators. What was Garrison's evidence? He refused to say, but-in what must rank as one of the most brilliant non sequiturs of the year -referred to a pleasure trip that Ferrie had made to southern Texas a few hours after the assassination: "We felt that it was rather peculiar that...
...junior last year, and the only sophomore the year before that. Next year the story won't be much different as only two -- check that, three -- ball players will be around who have gone the whole route. Of Coach Floyd Wilson's 14-man squad, ten are sophomores. This crop is undoubtedly good -- after all, it's beaten Brown twice and Columbia once -- and it may have pushed aside any upperclassmen who had been in the way, but it is still interesting to note that no one was there...
...prove that they had really isolated an infectious agent, the researchers had to grow it; they found it would multiply only in a medium containing living heart muscle itself. When the crop was injected into mice, the animals died in much the same way as heart-failure patients. What can the particles be? The investigators can only speculate that they may be a hitherto unknown form of life, with some of the properties of protozoa (such as malaria parasites) and some properties of viruses. If they are right, they may be on the track of other unexplained diseases...
...reserves of Sakhalin. To thaw the permafrost in relations dating back to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-06, Tokyo and Moscow are planning an exchange of airline flights over Siberia and a possible joint effort in Siberian economic development. Still, the frost is deep, and "technical details" crop up continually...
Frozen-concentrate processors, who buy 60% of the crop and thereby set the market, have slashed their prices by as much as 30%. In turn, supermarket chains in New York, Chicago and other areas last week cut frozen-juice prices from 180 or 20? to 15? per 6-oz. can. The end is nowhere in sight. "There's no way to stop the assembly line," wails Robert Rutledge, executive vice president of the Florida Citrus Mutual. "Only one power can pull the switch, and He hasn't sent us either frost or hurricane this year." Next...