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...Congressman and said, "That's Bill Scherle, he's agriculture," Brezhnev leaped at Scherle, looking up a full head above himself. How are crop prospects? Brezhnev wanted to know. Yes, he remembered Roswell Garst, who lives in Scherle's district, the man who had brought hybrid seed corn to Russia. They were studying productivity of crops and cattle-building up, Brezhnev told Scherle. When he moved on, Brezhnev left no doubt that during summit No. 4-that would be in 1975-he would like Richard Nixon around to take him out to the corn belt...
...sure, "prejudicial pretrial information does plant a seed," says Columbia University Sociologist Alice Padawer-Singer, who with fellow Sociologist Allen Barton recently studied nearly 500 jurors. But such difficulty can be overcome by searching out an open-minded jury, rather than an ignorant one, and by appropriate instructions from the judge. "A fair trial in a highly publicized case," Barton observes, "depends upon how well indoctrinated jurors are in their role of concentrating on the evidence and ignoring what they have heard outside." He recalls that in several Black Panther trials, jurors specifically said they considered only the evidence presented...
However, at the Sprints the next week after winning its morning heat, the Crimson was upended by the number-one seed and defending champion Northeastern...
There was a time when native intelligence was the salient American virtue. When Citizen Tom Paine wished to incite his countrymen, he titled his pamphlet Common Sense. His colleague Benjamin Franklin made a career of common sense; Poor Richard was a seed catalogue of utilitarian philosophy ("The used key is always bright"). By the early 19th century, De Tocqueville noted that Poor Richard had gone public. "Without ever having taken the trouble to define the rules of a philosophical method," he wrote, Americans "are in possession of one, common to the whole people...
...Nixon Administration, which has sought to raise output this year by rejiggering its agricultural policies, remains optimistic. Last week the Department of Agriculture issued an interim progress report. Its main point: there is still time to get enough seed into the ground to ensure big harvests...