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...Bettered Beef. But Castans felt that Paris was ready for Comment Réussir...
...herds his cattle from a helicopter, feeds and breeds them with the aid of computers, waters them from electrically warmed troughs and sometimes fattens them on beer. But while he pampers his animals, the cattleman himself is having a tough time. Last week the Chicago price of prime beef on the hoof fell to 22? per lb., the lowest since 1946, and cattlemen discarded their usual suspicion of Government programs long enough to cry for federal aid. Washington responded quickly. The State Department signed agreements with Australia and New Zealand to limit their exports of meat...
...little like asking a two-pack-a-day man to give up smoking. In Argentina, beef belt of the hemisphere, the country's 30 biggest packinghouses urged President Arturo Illia to institute meat rationing. Otherwise, they warned, exports will drop, many meat packers will close, and 60,000 workers will be out of work. Ironically, the trouble is that 1963 was a banner year for Argentine beef exports; slaughterhouses worked overtime, and farmers thinned out their herds. Now they are trying to build up their cattle stocks again, and in a land where 21 million people eat an average...
Thanks to the cuts in defense and agriculture, the President was able to beef up outlays for politically attractive welfare programs. As Budget Director Kermit Gordon put it, "Over the past three years we have so improved our military strength that we can direct some money to meet human and domestic needs." Total welfare requests were $7.7 billion, up $900 million, and the most heralded item was Johnson's attack on poverty. But the actual new money requested for the attack came to only $250 million...
...lead was played by John Goldmark, 46, a Harvard law graduate with a prosperous Okanogan Valley wheat, beef and quarter-horse ranch he bought after getting out of the Navy in 1945. He had been handily elected three times to the state legislature in Olympia, where he rose to chairman of the house ways and means committee. His wife Sally had been a Communist Party member from 1935 until a year after their marriage in 1942, a fact that became public during Goldmark's 1962 re-election campaign...