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...Least Elastic. As if conscious of the pitfalls of comfortable old age, Scripps-Howard has in recent months chopped some of its most seasoned timber. Patriarchal Roy Howard has gradually stripped himself of all of his titles but chairman of the executive committee, and several aging Scripps-Howard editors have been replaced. Morale and pay are both often low on Scripps-Howard newspapers, many of which are understaffed and penny-pinched. But enthusiasm still has room to grow in the nurturing climate of local autonomy, and management now makes a point of trying to attract younger...
Kudos for the objective analysis of pesticides. Far too many book reviewers have been impressed by Rachel Carson's lucidity rather than the substance of her new book. Pests kill ten times as much timber as forest fires do. Civilization has to live with careful use of pesticides, just as we must live with the automobile and other devices that can cause their toll through improper...
...mercilessly haze the freshmen ("fish"), who at all times "whip out" (shake hands) and cry: "Howdy! Fish So-and-so is my name, sir!" He-manship is undying. Hearty lads skin deer in the showers, carry Volkswagens up four flights of dormitory stairs, and work round-the-clock piling timber 100 ft. high for the purgative bonfire before the Wagnerian game with the University of Texas (U.T. has won 44 times since 1894, against 17 for A. & M.). Moreover, every single Aggie stands throughout every single football game-ignoring even passing tornadoes-to signify his eagerness to take...
...other rail brotherhoods, the telegraphers totally shut down the North Western, forcing its 35,000 Chicagoland commuters onto already clogged freeways. When the North Western stopped rolling, so did two-thirds of Wisconsin's multimillion-dollar paper and pulp industry. In the woodlands of Upper Michigan, cut timber piled high at rail sidings, and lumberjacks knew that layoffs were in the wind. Towering grain elevators were idled in Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin because farmers could not move their crops. Cargill Inc. shut its big soybean processing plant in Chicago, and the manager of its Omaha terminal, Ace R. Cory...
...Soviet news agency Tass announced that their maritime cargoes to Cuba this year would double those in 1961. Some ten Soviet ships are now converging on Cuban ports, said Tass, carrying consumer goods from canned food to cars, heavy machinery from harvesters to floating cranes, raw materials from timber to grain. Five more ships for the Cuba run were chartered from owners in four NATO countries -West Germany, Norway, Greece and Italy. Khrushchev's evident decision to support Castro to the limit has already raised Cuba to the position of Russia's third largest trade partner...