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Once the agreement was signed, President Ford lifted the two-month moratorium on new sales to the Soviets from this year's crop; he had imposed it at about the time longshoremen began refusing to load ships with wheat bound for Russia. The Soviets, who face a disastrous harvest, as much as 56 million tons below the planners' target of 215 million tons, are now free to buy from this year's record U.S. crop. The U.S.S.R. had signed contracts to buy 10 million tons before the embargo; it probably will buy about 7 million tons more...
...last three years, he has been studying under Uschi-Kessler Baornazian, the former German women's freestyle champion. He generally puts in three or four hours a day, taking Thursday off each week because that's when he has his heaviest class load...
...York has many special problems: it is a magnet for poor immigrants and rural people; it has an unusually large number of unemployed or otherwise dependent citizens and tax-exempt institutions; it also has huge numbers of commuters-many from neighboring states-who do not carry a full tax load...
...decided that the recovered Kennedy bullet had only one cannelure-a groove imprinted by the manufacturer - while the others had two concentric grooves. If so, that would at least raise the possibility that two guns were used, since it could be argued that the assailant was unlikely to load his gun with two kinds of bullets...
Some of the advantages of the quarter system would be to lighten the course load per term for students and enable the Institute to attract more visiting faculty for shorter periods, James Bruce, chairman of the committee and associate dean of the School of Engineering, said yesterday...