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...fairylike fragility about her arching, slender neck and delicately cut profile, and though she was not really small she seemed so, for she was slender and small-boned, not like a Watteau shepherdess, but like a little girl, and every move she made was graceful and unhurried as grain bending in the wind. Eric was not really handsome, but he had a clean-cut youthfulness, sleek hair, clear eyes and skin, and a certain litheness in his movements that bespoke the practiced athlete...
...Sterling Drug Inc. have just produced their 100 billionth Bayer aspirin tablet for the in satiable U.S. market. All in all, U.S. industry now manufactures 27 million Ibs. of aspirin a year - enough to fill four 100-car freight trains, enough for the 16 billion straight, five-grain aspirin tablets that Americans swallow each year, plus an even greater amount for the children's miniature aspirin and such formulations as Bufferin, APC tablets, Coricidin and Alka-Seltzer...
...likely to make sailing any smoother on the Great Lakes. While most Canadian unions supported the government, the parent S.I.U. decided to keep Banks on the payroll at $20,000 a year. It seemed likely that trouble on the waterfront might block shipment of the $254 million worth of grain that Canada still has to deliver to Russia. The New York-headquartered S.I.U., with some 70,000 members and A.F.L.-C.I.O. backing in the dispute, pledged "absolute support for Hal Banks," hinted at the possibility of a "massive blockade" of Canadian shipping in U.S. lake ports when the seaway shipping...
...Nikita laughed too soon. Yields in Kazakhstan slumped from an initial 16 bu. per acre to 5 bu. per acre last year, and Moscow was forced to buy more than 11 million tons of grain abroad. Inevitably, rumors spread that the Kremlin would scrap the Virgin Lands experiment. Sure enough, an official declaration last week implied just that. After spending $7.4 billion and drafting 350,000 fulltime farmers to work on the dubious project, the regime seemed to feel it was time to stop cultivating additional acreage in the far-off Virgin Lands, concentrate instead on raising output...
...Masters are said to think that women lower the tone of conversation in the dining halls. Whatever tiny grain of truth this view holds grows tinier by the day. Both the girls and the Houses would benefit from a more natural and relaxed situation--say, interhouse dining every night, without the "escort" provision. Still, what the HCUA proposes would be a vast improvement. By accepting it, the Masters would acknowledge that Harvard and Radcliffe students are equal members of an intellectual community...