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...everyday sort of liberal students (and a large helping of radically chic ones, too). The student is plucked out of his own community (which in an ever-increasing number of cases tends to be some place like Short Hills or Greenwich or Passaic), shipped like a piece of prime beef (yes, prime) and dumped in a great tower of learning whose only relationship to the community is either as land developer or slumlord. The student remains entirely isolated from the thousands of real people who live and play and work outside the walls of Harvard. Throughout his stay...
...overshadowed by Florida's famous beach resorts, is big business in the Sunshine State, where the first stock was brought in by Ponce de León in 1521. Today almost a quarter of all Florida's acreage is grazing land for 1,800,000 head of beef. But the vast spreads, some of which measure 300,000 acres, are difficult to patrol. Despite the best efforts of men like Red Simpson, increasingly active rustlers make off with an estimated $3,000,000 worth of Florida beef each year...
...prime steers are led up a loading ramp into the trailer, the van roars off. Rustlers have no trouble selling the steers for up to $300 a head at regularly scheduled livestock auctions, some in Georgia and Alabama. Many ranchers contend that a portion of the stolen beef winds up in Florida's resort motels and Mafia-controlled restaurants...
...professional, gang-style rustlers, amateur poachers pose a problem. They lasso and shoot or knife one or two steers at a time and often butcher them on the spot. Some of the meat goes into their freezers for future backyard barbecues. The rest is bootlegged to retailers. Because this beef is uninspected and carries no "prime" or "choice" stamps, it is usually ground up and sold as hamburger. Most sheriffs lack the manpower to check the rustlers. Instead, ranchers send gun-toting cowboys on range patrols in trucks and even light planes. The Florida Cattlemen's Association puts...
...where Else's are ecologically unsound. Think, if you can for this moment of the vibrant trees thrusting themselves towards the sun from the earth. yearning to breathe free like you or me, that must be cut down in the full sap of their youth to wrap a roast beef special...