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...Garcia administration gave an organization called the Philippine Coconut Producers' Federation permission to barter copra for foreign goods. The federation, Senate investigators later learned, was merely a front for a naturalized Chinese operator who exported only a fraction of the copra he was supposed to, but managed to reap a tidy $600,000 profit by selling to Manila merchants his dollar import allocation...
...only the front runners reap reasonable rewards. Such pros as Patty Berg and Louise Suggs have profitable contracts with sporting-goods manufacturers, and their tournament winnings (as much as $20,000 a year) more than cover their expenses. But once they start losing, they, too, will have to start scrambling for cash...
...course, and must pass a state licensing examination. Their number has nearly doubled (to 19,257) in 20 years. Though a great majority (perhaps 85%) still work mostly on livestock-swine, sheep, cattle, horses, etc.-the minority in city or suburban practice who concentrate on small animals and birds reap a disproportionate 50% of the vets' annual take (about $330 million...
French aria and Negro spirituals-and more than fulfilled the sponsoring State Department's hopes that she would reap good will for the U.S. along with the applause. Last week Singer Anderson reached New Delhi and learned that she was already a sellout attraction. Music lovers had scrambled to snap up the 1,200 available tickets that filled New Delhi's biggest concert hall to capacity...
...telephone to pass out political orders that crisscrossed Virginia in anticipation of a different sort of harvest. On Nov. 5 the Old Dominion elects a governor. When it does, the organization through which Harry Byrd has ruled his state for more than a quarter-century expects to reap enough white Democratic votes to bury Republican Candidate Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, 56, and Virginia's embryonic G.O.P. once and perhaps...