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...read: Hans Reichenbach's The Rise of Scientific Philosophy, giant Batman comics, In Cold Blood, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and a strategic paperback titled How to Get Ahead in the Army. For those who could not make the sun scene, there was a new crop of movies to catch, coffeehouses for conversation, or further out, a burgeoning of psychediscotheques tripping with lobster lights and the whining anti-melodies of Indian sitar music...
...pushing the revolutionary word on other fronts. Article after article claimed that a miraculous upsurge in industrial and agricultural production had been brought about by jettisoning all capitalist notions of expertise and turning instead to Mao-think. The New China News Agency reported that "China reaped the biggest grain crop in its history this year." (Western experts calculate a shortfall of 5,000,000 tons in the Chinese harvest for 1966.) The Agency also cited a "new leap forward" in iron and steel output as a result of "a mass movement to storm the technical citadels...
...five solid prospects waiting to sign up for his $175,000 anachronism, dozens of inquiries from prospective customers here and abroad. Dirt cheap to operate and maintain, the Bushmaster 2000 may well be used for years to come for short-haul cargo and passenger services, specialized operations such as crop spraying, fire fighting, timber dusting, exploratory and rescue work...
...Weiland, but its hockey program was decimated when Coach Ned Harkness packed up lock, stock, and players, and moved to Cornell in 1962. The Rensellaers started to recover with a good bunch of Canadian freshman last winter, and 9 of the varsity's current 14 players are from that crop...
Nevertheless, the Administration has made it clear that aid on such a scale cannot go on forever. This year, out of the entire U.S. wheat crop, one-fourth (9,000,000 tons) went to India. For weeks, there had been no word on whether the U.S. plans to sign another wheat agreement with India - to replace one that expires Dec. 31. The long delay reflected the White House view that India could be moving faster in modernizing its agriculture and that other countries must share the burden by providing grain, fertilizer or the hard currency...