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...with weeds for sunlight. But they are highly vulnerable to modern fertilizers, which cause them to become top-heavy with grain and topple over. To overcome that problem, Borlaug collected samples of a Japanese dwarf strain that had already been improved by a U.S. Agriculture Department scientist named Orville Vogel and crossed it with native Mexican wheat and other strains with desirable qualities. By growing them in both the hot, parched fields of northern Mexico and the higher, cooler regions near Mexico City, Borlaug eventually succeeded in producing a totally new strain. It was one that was hardy, resistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sowing a Green Revolution | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

...list of signers includes virtually all the specialists in East Asian studies at the level of assistant professor and above, and some in related fields. Besides Reischauer and Thomson, the signatories were: John K. Fairbank '29, Ezra F. Vogel, Dwight H. Perkins, Albert M. Craig, Ernest R. May, Benjamin I, Schwartz '38, Jerome A. Cohen, Henry Rosovsky and Roy Hofheinz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Professors Urge China's Admission to U. N. | 10/29/1970 | See Source »

...list of signers includes virtually all the specialists in East Asian studies at the level of assistant professor and above, and some in related fields. Besides Reischauer and Thomson, the signatories were: John K. Fairbank '29, Ezra F. Vogel, Dwight H. Perkins, Albert M. Craig, Ernest R. May, Ben-jamin I. Schwartz '38, Jerome A. Cohen, Henry Rosovsky and Roy Hofheinz...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Spengler Takes First Harriers Win GBC's Again | 10/28/1970 | See Source »

...this question of intent or "realization" is made extremely difficult by the scarcity of evidence against the accused students. That evidence is almost entirely photographic. One student, Virginia Vogel '70, has been charged on the basis of a single photograph taken of her inside the CFIA. But she claims that she did not arrive until after the initial disruption of the visiting committee...

Author: By M. D. L., | Title: CRR Will Judge Students On Supposition, Not Facts | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

Bowie disputed Miss Vogel's testimony. "In my judgment," he said, "anyone in that position [of the photograph] must surely have been in the crowd at the time of the actual disruption." But in the absence of further evidence, there is no way to check either claim...

Author: By M. D. L., | Title: CRR Will Judge Students On Supposition, Not Facts | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

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