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...that they acted in "good faith" on the instructions of the search warrant. The bureau's associate regional director, Frank Monastero, who supervised the search, regrets only the failure to find any loot. "We didn't send in a lot of guys with instructions of 'you pound here' and 'you pound there,' " he says. "We went through a series of progressive steps. Whether or not this was reasonable is up to the courts to decide. I personally felt that...
...availability of food has improved markedly. Hothouse-grown cucumbers are sold year-round but they cost more than $1 a pound. There are frozen ducks and chickens from Hungary and Denmark, eggs imported from Poland. Perhaps the single most noticeable change is the relative profusion of automobiles. In a country that has inadequate housing, there is now debate over whether the state should build heated indoor garages...
...American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced it will not award its $2,000 Emerson-Thoreau Medal this year. No reason was given, but one academician, M.I.T. Biologist Jerome Y. Lettvin, says that the group's literary committee recommended Ezra Pound, and that the governing council rejected him because of his anti-Semitic broadcasts for Italy during World War II. "Had you decided that Pound was an indifferent poet, and so deserved no prize," wrote Lettvin in his resignation, "then you would have no need to study his human failings. But you decided he was a good poet...
Wilson's farming efforts are spreading from the land to the sea. The company has an experimental fish farm in Puget Sound, where it is developing plate-sized salmon; the only salmon now on the market are 30-to 40-pound-ers that are caught in the wild with a great deal of labor. These projects are part of Wilson's drive to develop more consumer products, which require less capital investment than the industrial commodities that now bring 78% of Union Carbide's sales. "It won't happen in my lifetime," says Wilson, "but some...
...Paris-based Trib (circ. 121,000) is no mere letter from home. It is far different from the daily described by The New Yorker's Janet Planner as "the village newspaper" of the American expatriate colony in Paris, the favorite of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. Increasingly it serves to inform a widespread audience about both the U.S. and the world. It is read with respect in the power centers of Europe, where English is now the second language. Nineteen copies a day go to Peking, and the Kremlin also subscribes. Editor Murray "Buddy" Weiss...