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...Many of our agricultural products such as apples, citrus fruits, cotton, and tobacco depend heavily on overseas markets. The obvious step for other countries to take in meeting the United States threat to restrict their products is to impose counter-restrictions in retaliation...On balance, American agriculture will suffer from this provision...
Actually the chief effect of the Hershey ruling on the Law School would be that blanket graduate deferment would no longer apply, and, like undergraduates, Law students would have to depend on their draft boards to be redeferred at the end of each year. With undergraduate status, however, a 70 on the draft test is all that would be required for deferment rather than the graduate score...
...abnormally huge demand in the future. They kept admissions high for lawyers right after the last war and because of the large number of veterans applying. And Sturges points to financial troubles in the last few years as a reason for keeping his school large. "...We must depend on box office receipts," he states. If each dean has his way, Harvard will eventually have 1400 students and Yale 450-some...
...passengers' heads are clamped into position to prevent a neck-snapping jolt during takeoff, if some kind of magnetic suits are provided to hold them to the floor when the familiar pull of gravity fades away. Could the weightless pilot, whipping through space at seven miles a second, depend on his sense of vision alone to keep his balance? Maybe. One of the doctors suggests a way to find out: 1) put a congenital deaf-mute (who has never had a normal sense of balance) in a diving suit; 2) submerge him until the buoyancy of water exactly balances...
...What we know is just the tiniest fragment," said a Wayne University professor of physics. "For the whole, we depend upon faith." Even the "law of chance" presupposes a law, argued an anthropologist. "Whose law? For me, I prefer the belief in a creator, divine, supernatural. I cannot accept chaos...