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...most significant rise of all was for beef. Compared with a year ago, prices in April were up 8% for hamburger, 9% for sirloin and 10% for round steak. Some alarmed butchers predict that sirloin may hit $2 a Ib. this summer...
There may be a great deal of latent opposition to Harvard's establishmentarian, title-laden choices for honorary degrees. But it's unlikely that the opposition will be voiced, because the degrees just aren't important enough to object to. If the Fellows want to beef up their Commencement party, why spoil their...
...Apollo 10. None of the crew caught cold, probably because of a less tiring preflight schedule. None suffered nausea caused by weightlessness, possibly because of in-flight head-movement exercises prescribed by the astronauts' physician, Dr. Charles Berry. For the first time since John Young smuggled a corned-beef sandwich aboard the Gemini 3 flight in 1965 and littered the spacecraft interior with crumbs, the astronauts were allowed a supply of bread. To withstand the pure-oxygen atmosphere, which quickly dries bread and makes it crumbly, the slices of white and rye bread had been flushed with nitrogen...
...Corned Beef and Competition. Cost overruns have been standard procedure in American military history. There were corned beef scandals during the Civil War, and the West was won partly on padded Government contracts for shot, powder, rifles, bully beef and hardtack. Today's excesses can hardly be blamed on defense-industry "profiteering." While U.S. industry's overall return on investment rose from 7.1% in 1967 to 10.1% last year, the defense contractors' profits have dropped from an average 10.1% to around...
Switching to catfish makes sound financial sense. The fish require less care than crops and bring their growers a fatter price per pound (400 to 500 live weight) than beef, pork or poultry. One of the first to discover the market was Edgar Farmer, 57, who stocked a pond ten years ago with a dozen "channel cats" that he had caught with a bamboo pole in the Arkansas River. Last year Farmer reaped $55,000 from 500 acres of catfish ponds. They are far more profitable than the 1,300 acres he devotes to rice, soybeans and subsidized cotton. Like...