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...eight years. He has demanded stringent air and water pollution control programs, and fought a recalcitrant state legislature to get appropriations for secondary and elementary education. The expanding, high-quality State University of New York is an ornament of his tenure, and may one day rival California's in size and excellence...
Dwindling Surpluses. The major reason for the price rise is the startling decline in U.S. farm surpluses. Because of Government crop controls and the increasing size of foreign-aid shipments of food to famine-threatened nations, the wheat surplus has dropped since 1963 from 32.5 million to 15.2 million metric tons, is now below the minimum needed as insurance against domestic crop failure. In addition, bad weather reduced this year's harvest. Speaking at the Miami convention of the National Association of Food Chains last week, Boston Supermarket Executive Gordon F. Bloom said: "American consumers have grown accustomed...
...increase foreign sales 25% next year. Other U.S. soft-drink makers are also training some of their highest-priced executive and promotional talent on the foreign market, whose growth rate will soon top that of the U.S. market. Competition is so acute that companies seldom disclose the size of their foreign sales, but industry insiders estimate conservatively that the annual volume of U.S. soft drinks abroad is at least 1 billion cases-making a market of more than $1 billion...
...unmaking had its unbeginning when elegantly eloquent Conservative William F. Buckley Jr. got to thinking seriously about one of his "semi-jocular" newspaper columns, in which he had "vouchsafed a paradigmatic platform, theoretically useful in any large-size American city." From there, it was no more than a few thousand syllables into the 1965 New York mayoralty campaign as the Conservative Party contestant against Republican-Liberal John V. Lindsay and Democrat Abraham Beame...
...achievement level of Negro students has almost no relation to the size of their classes or to the amount of money spent on them...