Word: trager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mark Miller and Oliver R. Trager, two Cambridge residents who share the apartment with Humes, have begun circulating a petition in Cambridge calling upon the Massachusetts judicial system to conduct a thorough investigation of the Humes case. Currently without counsel, Humes says he is considering surrendering himself to the authorities to hasten the resolution of the charges pending against him, and to publicize his alternative detoxification treatment. He adds that he is still weighing a lawsuit against the National Computer Information Center, but has taken no serious action thus far. In the meantime, Humes keeps a close...
...Smith? No one yet knows. Trager gives some credence to the theory that he was a Russian operative trying to force up the price of U.S. wheat (by then the Soviets had preliminary agreements on most of their buy orders) in an attempt to keep the Chinese from entering the market too. Paranoid fantasy? Perhaps. Still, the Chinese did indeed hold up on some planned U.S. wheat purchases when the prices began spinning upward. Trager, an American gourmet and journalist, is the author of a vast international compendium of nourishment called The Food Book (1970). This volume is briefer...
...novel on racism, to the News, he was forced to run it as a letter because of the editors' fears of potential editorializing. So clearly the times weren't as tranquil as the gauzy haze of nostalgia would make them appear at first sight. As '46 classmate James G. Trager wrote at the time, the Service News was forced "to walk a tight rope carrying a fine-silk parasol" to maintain its pose of equanimity, and, one suspects, many other aspects of college life were forced to pursue a parallel course...