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...applies a strong dose of self-styled Midwestern common sense--"a big grain of salt"--to the mystique of higher learning. People who are "all loaded up with knowledge," he says gruffly, "can't tie it up in packages, can't put it to work, because they lack understanding...
Died. Beth Ann Simon, 24, a New Jersey housewife who nine months ago sought spiritual relief in the austere, so-called longevity-promoting diet prescribed by Japanese Zen Philosopher George Ohsawa (Zen Macrobiotics), thereafter subsisting chiefly on whole-grain cereal; apparently of malnutrition, her weight having dropped from 120 Ibs. to 70 Ibs.; in Clifton...
...handling and mailing, stamps especially selected for good centering and "freedom from tears and other flaws." For the gardener, the Agriculture Department has a list of nurseries that sell rare plants. The bird watcher can rejoice in the fact that the Commodity Credit Corp. is authorized to donate grain in bulk to feed migratory birds during periods of blizzard, flood and drought. All amateur railroaders should have a copy of the Army Map Service's No. 8024, which charts each and every track of each and every U.S. railroad...
...defense, the ICC cites the enormous complications of amalgamation. ICC Commissioner Kenneth H. Tuggle points out that railroad mergers involve hundreds of millions of dollars and can determine the economic development of a region for decades to come. Says he: "It takes time to listen to the grain people, the milling companies, the commuters, the mayors of cities, the Governors...
...Crown. After token conciliation at Spithead, the government set its chin. In the Nore anchorage at the Thames mouth, a troubled old admiral named Charles Buckner listened with some sympathy to the complaints presented by the elected "president" of the mutineers, Richard Parker, the son of a grain merchant who had once been an officer himself but got cashiered for insubordination. But the Admiralty overrode him, offered only a single term: "unconditional submission...