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...with more convenient Western bakery products. Echoing the traditional complaint of the American housewife, the Chinese are concerned that workers spend too much time in the kitchen. Under an agreement reached last month, U.S. Wheat Associates will spend about $700,000 from grower contributions and Agriculture Department funds to equip the new Peking bakery...
...increase of 3.3% after inflation. The President outlines defense spending through 1985 that cumulatively adds $90.1 billion more to defense budgets than would be needed simply to maintain this year's force levels. Increased spending includes money for the MX intercontinental missile and Trident submarines, and to equip the Rapid Deployment Force of some 100,000 troops that is to be ready by 1983 for use in world trouble spots like the Persian Gulf...
What is it, then, that makes homosexuals tend to sympathize with revolutionary causes, and to find in espionage a congenial occupation? No doubt, psychiatrists' case books shed light on this, but just common sense suggests that the same gifts which make homosexuals often accomplished actors equip them for spying, which is a kind of acting, while their inevitable exclusion from the satisfaction of parent hood gives them a grudge against society, and therefore an instinctive sympathy with efforts to overthrow it. I remember reading an account of [Biographer] Lytton Strachey sitting on a rock in the Isle of Skye...
Merle Fainsod, Pforzheimer University Professor, chaired the Committee on the Committee on the Organization of the Faculty (Fainsod Committee(, which began with two purposes: to recommend changes in the governing arrangement and procedures of the Faculty, "which will better equip it to cope with the problems of change and adjustment which lie ahead," and to find ways "students can play a significant and responsible role in reaching decisions...
...divisions of the People's Liberation Army may have to wait a long time to be outfitted. Says Georgetown University Military Analyst Edward N. Luttwak: "The total inventory of American ground weapons of the Army and Marines, of the active forces and reserves, would not be enough to equip the Chinese army with modern weapons...