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...despite the heftiest doses of weed killer. A brace of the waddling birds can keep an acre of cotton weeded; a gaggle of twelve geese can gobble as much as a hard-working man can clear with a hoe. Cotton-goosing farmers save $20 per acre compared with the stiffer cost of chemical weeding. The only drawback to the system is that the geese, grown fat from their weed-gorging, occasionally trample down the young cotton. But after their chores are done, and the cotton is safely off to the gin, the geese themselves can always be peddled to help...
...just beginning to implement the major policy statement of his administration--last year's freshman--year report. In that far-reaching document, Griswold urged the university to increase its efforts to eliminate the anti-intellectualism which prevailed at the school at the start of his presidency. He called for stiffer admissions procedures, the integration of freshmen into the Colleges, and the admission of women to the college...
...itself caught between. U.S. foreign policy is the other. More than 50 countries have virtually embargoed U.S. textile imports by one means or another. Japan last year exported 135 million yds. of cloth to the U.S., but permitted U.S. imports of only 490.000 yds. The State Department resists imposing stiffer import quotas and tariffs because it does not want to damage the economies of nations that the U.S. is trying to prop up. When President Kennedy himself proposed an 8?-per-lb. tariff increase on imported cottons to win cotton-state support for his Trade Expansion Act, he was turned...
Harvard's two leading swimmers, John Pringle and Dave Abramson, conclude the Crimson's 1962-3 swimming season today and tomorrow by completing in two events each at the National Collegiate Athletic Association championships in Raleigh, N.C. Though the competition will be stiffer than any the two swimmers have faced this year, each has a chance to place in at least one event...
...students. Getting in requires far more than passing bachot exams for university entrance. From the 50% of candidates who pass those stiff exams, a handful of the very brightest stay on at a lycée (secondary school) for two more years of study before tackling the even stiffer exams for grandes écoles...