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...Over this past weekend we initiated a voluntary program to monitor grain exports...
Tucked into President Ford's economic speech, the statement failed to command much attention at first. Yet the new program, under which traders are asked to seek Department of Agriculture approval of all sales abroad exceeding 50,000 tons of grain at one shot or 100,000 tons in a week, set off a wave of international jitters even as it aimed at holding down prices at home...
...White House is trying to avoid a massive flow of American farm goods out of the country. It will require that grain exporters get Government approval for all big sales to foreigners. Last week Ford intervened to halt the sale of $500 million of grain to the Soviet Union, even though the dealers?Manhattan's Continental Grain Co. and Memphis' Cook Industries?had already signed the contracts...
...would know what a young man described as a "redstone kouros from Sounion...translated into the slenderer grace of a modern gramivore" is unless he knew that the kouros was an idealized version of the male in ancient Greek sculpture practiced in Sounion and that a gramivore ate grain? The frustration is good in a way, too, because it makes one realize how immense our history actually is and how much of it we've come to neglect or take for granted...
...adds them in separately. And a contribution from an alumni/parent may be logged both under alumni and parental categories, but it cannot be added twice in the final total. Radcliffe in the past also has not added in contributions coming through the various club programs. But, taken with a grain of salt, a comparison between Harvard and Radcliffe alumni donations and those at other men's, women's and coed colleges throughout the country can offer some interesting insights into current giving trends among both sexes and alumni in general...