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Though the 1964 Senate hearings on Bobby Baker yielded a tangy crop of headlines, they produced little else. Entrepreneur Baker remained free to pursue his affairs, a peripatetic playboy in alligator shoes. Last week, after three years, another Bobby Baker hearing finally got under way in a far less flamboyant atmosphere. The arena this time was the grimly sterile U.S. courthouse for the District of Columbia, and Baker's accuser was the U.S. Government...
...more than most of its neighbors, Syria is a fertile land that since Biblical times has usually prospered by exporting grain and other foodstuffs. Today, Syria's chief domestic crop is trouble, its chief exports terror and sedition...
...sells strategic materials to Cuba. Yugoslavia sends Castro goods ranging from truck tires to machinery. And, in fact, the U.S. is no longer in a position to dispense vast agricultural surpluses around the world. The Department of Agriculture estimates that wheat supplies on hand next July-before the new crop is harvested-will be no more than 420 million bushels, less than the nation's own need for a year's reserve...
...Advocate has hit the jackpot. For some years now it has solicited nationally, and has seldom produced an issue in which student writing predominated. Merely by seeking the best of any recent crop of Harvard graduates, it has aligned itself with professional "little magazines," rather than with other undergraduate publications, in competition for individual manuscripts; and since the Advocate does not pay its contributors, it has rarely gotten enough to land it very high in its chosen league...
...latter part of the CRIMSON article accurately gives our reasons for opposing the employment in Vietnam of riot gas and anti-crop chemicals, as actions likely to erode the restraints on the use of chemical and biological weapons generally...