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Novelist Holland's hero helps explain the Magyar weakness. The great Baron Rakóssy and the other lords have just crushed a peasant rebellion and are now squabbling with each other. Rakóssy has his eye on Catharine de Buñez, who is related to the Habsburg emperor, and he gets her; for good measure, he seduces her sister and slays her brother-in-law. He also has his eye on the neighboring castle of Vrath and gets it as well, by trickery rather than force of arms. By this time, not only the peasants...
...Cauldron will not compete with other college newspapers. Carol Natelson, a BU junior who is the paper's editor-in-chief said yesterday that "we feel we can fill needs individual college newspapers can't handle, such as reporting events from many campuses and covering the Boston community...
...soybeans, soybean oil and soybean meal set seasonal records after a month of wild trading. A cool speculator who decided to hold on to his contracts for the month could have tripled his money. In trading last week price changes twice reached the permissible daily limit of 10? per bu., and to take the heat out of the market the Board of Trade has doubled in stages the margin required of a trader to $2,000 per 5,000 bu. contract...
...Gold. Introduced to the U.S. from Asia in 1804, the soybean did not become a significant agricultural product until World War II cut off normal U.S. imports of fats and oil. From a crop of 193 million bu. in 1945, output rose to 843.7 million bu., worth nearly $2.5 billion last fall. Soybeans are the U.S.'s most valuable agricultural export, ranking ahead of wheat and corn...
Last January Dean Watson set a limit of 20 students in each House who could live off-campus. In the Spring, perceiving that things might be a little tight in the fall, he raised each quota to 28. Most Houses failed to fulfill their quota, bu tat least one, Adams, had far more applicants to live off than the quota permitted. Instead of raising the Adams Houses failed to fill their quota, but at least one, other Houses, the administration remained rigid. Thus in the Spring it denied off-campus status to many students, and in the fall, to open...