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...Freeman was ready to make some compromises, but gave no indication that he was willing to scrap Title One. There was little time to lose. As Freeman fretted, his Agriculture Department announced that this year's bumper crop of wheat would add about another 125 million bu. to the stockpile that already totals 1,450,000,000 bu. Every day the U.S. spends $1,400,000 just to store a mountain of surplus food that now is worth $9.4 billion...
Canada may not recognize Red China diplomatically, but it knows a good customer when it sees one. Last week Canada's Minister of Agriculture Alvin Hamilton announced the biggest one-shot grain sale in Canadian history: over the next 2½ years, Communist China will buy 233.4 million bu. of wheat and barley worth $362 million. The sale brought famine-suffering Red China from nowhere to second place (barely behind Britain) among Canada's grain customers...
...eight members of the varsity sailed a 44 ft. yawl to a tie for first with Navy in the historic McMillan Cup regatta. Last weekend in the official esason opener, skippers Ford and Lehmann and drews Horn and Lew Natenshon missed winning the Boston University Trophy by three points (BU 90, Harvard 87, Yale...
EPIC, which last year co-ordinated picketing activities in the Boston area, has this year recommended picketing as only one of a series of alternatives for action by its member organizations. The EPIC group at BU has thus far concentrated on a successful battle to end discrimination in fraternities and sororities, while the Brandels organization is working on housing discrimination...
...Mexico's The Young One, made by Director Luis Buñuel, somewhat unoriginally followed the progress of a game warden (Zachary Scott) as he successfully arouses the sexual appetite of a 13-year-old girl...