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Bruce Cambell Hopper, associate professor of Government from 1937 to his retirement in 1961, died at his Cambridge home on Thursday, July 5. He was 80 years...
...Hopper, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1930, was an early expert on the Soviet Union. Associated with the Air Force, he frequently lectured at armed forces institutions on the subject of Russia...
...corn is mounting, eating away at his 4½?-per-bu. margin of profit. The grain has already been sold, but Troyer will not be paid until it is delivered-and there is no way to get it delivered. Railroads have promised him 87 covered hopper cars to ship the corn, but the cars have not shown...
...carriers held up Russian shipments until November -just in time to coincide with one of the biggest grain harvests in U.S. history and an unprecedented demand by European countries for American produce. The big surge of new orders further clogged U.S. harbors with ships, delaying unloading of grain-laden hopper cars even more. Then Mother Nature stepped in, sending the Mississippi over its banks and disrupting rail operations throughout the Midwest...
...resonance, full of scrupulously affectionate detail for a West that changed too fast and too often ever to be called "Old." It is a wry paean to a life of crime, and displays a robust contempt for law, order and the encroachments of civilization. Bickford, as dexterously played by Hopper, shows signs occasionally of becoming a kind of surrogate James Dean, a prairie rebel without a cause. Hopper started working in films about the same time as Dean (they appeared together in Rebel Without a Cause), and in rather the same style. But Hopper is an actor of quick cunning...