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Funny, but soon after NBC Newscaster Chet Huntley said that the nation's meat industry was "sick" and that one of the consumer's greatest problems was "too much fat in our beef," a new viand went on sale in New York. The product: Chet Huntley's Nature Fed Beef, advertised by pictures of a lean and hungry Chet and by promises of "quality and flavor, plus low fat and high protein." The fat was in the fire, and NBC, prodded by a local packer, ordered Huntley to trim his name and face from the chopped chuck...
...meat, and the typical family will spend at least 5% of its income to buy it. These superlatives-no nation eats or spends more-somehow do not make housewives and wage earners as happy as they should, and for good reason: the average price of a pound of choice beef, which seems to be what most Americans buy, is 810 v. 680 ten years...
...lightweights, Coach Freddy Cabot will be seeking to regain the top spot among Eastern crews which the Crimson held from 1958 through 1961. Cornell and M.I.T. defeated the Crimson last year with "sheer brute strength," Cabot said, and he hopes to beef up his first boat this year while maintaining its good rowing style...
...dinner was officially a progress report on the Library, but the trustees reportedly hope they can raise at least $1 million among the corporations whose presidents dined on roast beef last night...
Another key amendment was offered by Nebraska's Republican Senator Roman Hruska. Seeking a nonsubsidy way to ease the economic troubles of the U.S. livestock industry (TIME, Feb. 28), Hruska wanted to limit imports of foreign beef and veal to 540 million lbs. annually, instead of the 920 million lbs. called for in recent agreements between the U.S. and Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. While Hruska's amendment appealed to some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, South Dakota Democrat George McGovern noted that it "would cut the ground from under U.S. representatives" at forthcoming international tariff...