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That milestone is the first on a 70-year-long road. For decades, American Jews have wanted to found a nonsectarian educational institution. They have felt a vague gratitude to the hundreds of colleges founded by other denominations which have admitted Jews, frequently without limitation...
...newly independent nations of the Far East is hatred for the disinherited colonial masters so bitter and abiding as in Indonesia; in none is the notion of simple courtroom justice so little understood. Indonesia's bitterness and its slap-happy courtroom practices have reached fever pitch in the year-long trial of Leon Nicolaas Jungschlaeger, a 52-year-old Dutch citizen accused of conspiring to overthrow the Indonesian government. The Jungschlaeger case has become a cause celebre throughout Indonesia and The Netherlands...
...Busting Crop. The trouble began to develop two years ago, when Canada exported only 41% of its bin-busting 614-million-bushel wheat crop instead of the usual 55%-60%. Rust and harvesttime rain cut last year's crop to 309 million bushels, but exports again fell off sharply. Britain withdrew from the International Wheat Agreement, India and France began to grow more of their own grain as a matter of national policy, and Argentina, bouncing back from a year-long drought, stepped up its sales in Latin America. The U.S., burdened with a giant surplus...
Does Fair Trade bring higher or lower prices? Last week, after a year-long study of the question, University of Chicago Economist Ward S. Bowman Jr. reported that Fair Trade tends to raise retail prices. As part of his research, Bowman picked a typical product, toothpaste, and 'checked retail prices all over the nation. Conclusion: in the 40 states that have Fair Trade laws, toothpaste costs 2% more than in free-trading states...
This week, at the age of 100, Michigan State University at East Lansing was still operating at full tide. As part of its year-long birthday celebration, it assembled a giant farm-machinery exposition of some $30 million worth of equipment. There were corn pickers and cotton pickers, weeders, tractors, and combines of every type. By week's end, 250,000 people, including the touring Soviet farmers, are expected to have seen the show. But more impressive than the machinery on display was Michigan State itself...