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Across the rolling lands of Texas and Oklahoma, sweating harvesters drove their clanking combines in echelon, cutting wide swaths through the endless fields of golden wheat. As the winter wheat harvest hit its full stride last week, farmers were hard put to find a place for their bumper crop. In...
Delegations of Jews from 20 nations, including the U.S., laid wreaths and banners against the monument-a wall built of broken bricks from the ghetto's rubble piles. Mounted in a front niche was a bronze plaque showing armed men & women straining toward freedom.
Wheat poured last week from the spout of a shipside elevator into a 10,000-ton Liberty ship tied up at a Galveston dock. In the dust-thick hold, longshoremen flattened the light brown piles. Loaded with 328,000 bushels of No. 1 hard winter wheat, the ship moved over...
The recent demise of Geography as a going concern was explained away briefly with the statement that "Harvard cannot hope to have a strong department in everything." Although this excuse hardly justifies the virtual liquidation of Geography, it is an uncontested fact that no university is "strong in everything," and...
One possible but unlikely theory: a killing cloud might be formed by dispersing radioactive byproducts of plutonium-making piles. The byproducts are deadly, all right, but if large quantities were loaded on an airplane without prohibitively massive shielding, the first casualties would probably be the crew.