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...amnesty offer withdrawn, bombs and guns went off all over. Terrorists attacked two police stations near Nicosia. A limpet mine, presumably placed by an E.O.K.A. frogman, holed the bottom of a small vessel anchored at the very spot where French and British supply ships were scheduled to unload later in the week...
...midweek the inevitable happened. As trading volume reached an alltime high of 66,205,000 bushels, prices for July futures, i.e., July delivery, dived the permissible 10? limit for the day. The next day the same thing happened as speculators with tiny margins and quick reflexes hastened to unload. Rumors that the Commodity Exchange Authority (the SEC of commodity trading) was going to investigate possible market rigging brought still more stop-loss orders pouring in. At week's end, the CEA investigation rumors quieted; July futures closed at $3.20 per bushel, a loss of about 22? in three days...
...Russia had signed a three-year contract to buy 100 million bu., Czechoslovakia placed an order for up to 11,800,000 bu. Poland had already ordered 12,950,000 bu., and Hungary was reported ready to buy some 3,000,000 bu. Prospects looked good that Canada would unload nearly 15% of her wheat surplus to Communist customers...
Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Goverment, said that it would be "fatuously optimistic" to say that the Democratic chances were not hurt by the President's statement. He also added that the Republicans would "probably not unload Nixon because that would tend to split the party." McCloskey felt that the Democrats now had "outside chances" of winning the race...
Education: The best Britain provides-private prep school, Winchester, then New College, Oxford, where he took first-class honors in "Modern Greats" (politics, philosophy, economics) and first developed an interest in Socialism. During the General Strike of 1926, other students swarmed off to man buses or unload ships; Hugh got himself a union card and distributed the strikers' newspapers. When a fond aunt offered to subsidize him in an army career, Hugh replied: "My future belongs to the working class...