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Your Business reporter in referring to gold-plated steaks from T. O. Pride [Nov. 4] has smeared the gold on with a lavish hand. Sirloin from this steer would be worth nearer $125 than $1,250 a pound. Perhaps in drooling over the thought of sirloin (with mushrooms) from this champion, his enthusiasm prompted him to place the decimal point one place too far to the right. Right...
...Botany Department, which controls Soledad, also supervises the nearer but much larger Harvard Forest, whose 2300 acres have been under intensive management longer than any other similar tract in the United States. Here instructors and students work together under actual forest conditions at all seasons of the year. The area around Petersham, Massachusetts, where the forest is located, has varied and interesting conditions of forest cover, soil, and topography Containing a great number of trees species--the beech, birches and maples of the northern zone and the oak, hickory, and chestnut of the central zone, this is an ideal location...
...thorny, technical subject of reparations, which was tied in with the more important political question of a unified Germany, Russia last week seemed to move much nearer the West's position. Russia had already removed $2,500,000,000 worth of capital goods from Germany. Further removals were not advisable, for they would impair current production in the Soviet zone (from which Russia is taking $35 million worth each month). At the same time the Soviet zone needed steel from the western zones, which the U.S. and Britain would deliver only on one condition: lowering of zonal barriers...
Damning the United States "yellow process" for "bringing calamity that much nearer" in U. S. Russian relations, Arthur Upham Pope, biographer of Maxim Litvinoff, defended Russian foreign policy last night at the first Law School Forum of the 1946-47 season...
...recent history has shown that nations can change their minds or break their word. But weapons reduction is good, nevertheless for nationalist fears and doubts are chiseled down, and something closer to an ultimate end--a world police force to replace all national armies--is brought a niche nearer in history. Similarly, any agreements on economic, political, and social levels accomplished by hard work lessons the need to fall back on nationalism and loosens the grip of nationalist thinking on the world. Now charters and rules can help only superficially. A true realization of the magnitude of the problem...