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...reason for the wholesale-price dip, say sugarmen, is the declining price of the raw product. Sugar speculators, sensing that they had bid up the price on commodity exchanges to an unsustainable peak, have recently begun to dump their holdings and take their profits. U.S. spot prices of raw sugar have tumbled 10? per lb. in the past two weeks to 50?. World sugar prices (the U.S. imports about half the 11.5 million tons that it consumes each year) have fallen from 59? to 49? per lb. in the same period...
...most serious problem area is the southern part of the state, where new housing developments have been built along the marshy bayous where the alligators live. Last summer, for example, a family in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie went out to its swimming pool for an evening dip, but stopped short: a 4-ft. alligator was lolling in the water. Alligators have also been pulled, smoked or hosed out of culverts in Golden Meadow, Morgan City and other towns south of New Orleans...
...glorified mud puddle, finely churned by the hundreds of motorcycles that scramble back and forth. In the middle a naked man is rolling about in the mire. The deeper he sinks, the greater the crowd's pleasure. A few thousand people now mill about this shallow, bowl-like dip of land, waiting for another victim, throwing empty cans of beer at each other. For the present they must content themselves with stoning the engine of an already charred hulk. Here there is no real audience. If you are not throwing rocks or Molotov cocktails, you are providing the impetus...
Despite these impressive showings, Radcliffe suffered from a long spell in dry dock--Mount Holyoke has been swimming competitively all fall, while this was Radcliffe's first competitive dip of the year...
During Christmas vacation, dorm temperatures will dip to about 55 degrees, as they did last year...