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...Harvardman to describe Cambridge, 38. He teaches at Brooklyn College, is a literary critic, and was a former prison psychologist--a helpful attribute for dealing with the University. Harper's proudly reports that Boroff talked with deans and hundreds of students, and even ate a Roast Beef Special at Elsie...
What is the beef? Does it hurt our pride to have the hypocritical Commies tell us the truth about our shortcomings...
Defense of the islands is a planning headache to U.S. military men. But the U.S., at week's end, showed that it was more than willing to back up its blunt diplomatic talk with military beef. To the Seventh Fleet of Vice Admiral Wallace ("Beak") Beakley steamed the carrier Essex and four destroyers from the Middle East, the big carrier Midway and the heavy cruiser Los Angeles from the West Coast. U.S. fighters rolled onto the ready line on Formosa, and Tactical Air Force sent out from the states a reinforcing squadron along with air cargo support planes from...
Cause of the panic was the allegation that men had been feminized by eating beef of steers fattened with the aid of a female hormonal substance, stilbestrol. The Tribuna do Povo reported that husky Sebastiao de Lima Serra of Aragatuba, 500 miles north of Rio, had suffered a "veritable metamorphosis, turning into a docile, falsetto-voiced creature of strange customs." Serra blamed his plight on the hormone-treated beef. Rio's state government proclaimed: "The necessary measures will be taken to end this evil...
Before competent authorities could decide whether there was any evil to end, cariocas had the jitters. Sales of beef dropped 40% in Rio, as much as 80% in other cities, and the price of tenderloin plummeted from 50? a pound to 3?. Millions of Brazilians took to a fish diet...