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Milling around a huge blackboard on which the price fluctuations were posted, traders flooded the market with sell orders, in what looked suspiciously like an attempt to drive prices down. When the exchange finally stopped trading, officials made a startling discovery: 627 contracts for May deliveries, some 27 million lbs. of potatoes, had been defaulted. The exchange set a price of $4.45 per 100 lbs., made the traders pay $1,185,000 for the potatoes they had not delivered, and assessed a $186,000 penalty to boot. Last week the exchange and the U.S. Agriculture Department's Commodity Exchange...
...Blackboard Jungle...
Little Laborers. At first, Teacher Janvier had wanted to be a writer. Though she could never see a blackboard, she managed to get through Newcomb College and to take an M.A. in English at Tulane. Then a friend offered her a job as a local factory inspector in charge of investigating child laborers to see if they were of legal age to work. "It was amazing," she recalls, "how people would try to change the records so that their children could go to work before they were 14. But even those who were 14 were pitiful little things who should...
...blackboard seemed to loom over the auditorium at California's Department of Public Health in Berkeley. It also loomed over the nation. For the blackboard charted every case of polio that had developed after use of vaccine made by Berkeley's Cutter Laboratories; it listed the date and site of vaccination, date of symptoms' onset, location of paralysis, age and sex-but not the name-of victims. As the week went on, the impersonal box score grew. The Salk vaccine still meant to most people what it had the week before-banishment of a crippling disease...
Whisky & Courtesy. Today, after four months in business, Sports Information answers 18,000 calls a day; 17 researchers (all but two are paraplegics) field every question thrown at them. The office (Webster 8-3311) looks like a busy horse parlor, but its huge blackboard reflects more than track results: data on the big-time sports events are entered on the board, giving researchers the results at a glance. For the offbeat queries S.I.R. subscribes to a wire service and burrows through stacks of dog-eared reference books...