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...Crimson team, defending the title it won last fall, had no trouble in its elimination series on the weekend of November 3, taking six straight races in a round-robin event. While Harvard was soundly trouncing MIT, Coast Guard took seven out of eight races from BU in their elimination series...
These were the sights and the sounds-and the results were spectacular. Despite the shackles of Government control, the American farmer in 1962 has broken through to a new per-acre production record. Kansas wheat ran to an average of 23.5 bu. as against a 1951-60 mark of 19.1. North Dakota wheat yielded 28.7 bu., more than twice last year's, and nearly double the ten-year average. Iowa corn came in at 76 bu. per acre, well above the ten-year average of 57.2. Thanks to modern farm technology, the total harvest was wrought from 288 million...
...delay was fairly obvious. As a union organizer the woman had to spend most of her time with the Negro community and consequently became unpopular with the whites. Niether she nor her two Negro partners came from Kent County, and the team was called "a group of urriners" bu the local newspaper. The white community might be unwilling to act violently toward her but it wasn't about to help her out when she got into trouble...
This year Australia has a bumper wheat crop estimated at 300 million bu. ready for harvesting, and is eager to sell more to Peking. The Hong Kong business community is full of reports that the Australians will offer more liberal credit terms to the Chinese Reds in the hope of undercutting the Canadians, who last year sold $120 million worth of grain to Peking...
Without exception the candidates took strong stands on civil rights, especially equality for Negroes. Disagreement centered on the achievements of the Kennedy Administration to this end. In opposition to Kennedy's claim of "dramatic steps" bu the administration, Hughes seemed to speak for the rest when he saw "very little progress" toward integration...