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...distortions of Uruguay's economy. On rolling land that could provide some of the lushest cattle and sheep pasturage in the world, wheat is being grown, encouraged by government price supports despite the world wheat glut. Ranchers, penalized by taxes and government cheap-meat policies, are producing less beef and wool-the country's mainstay exports. So serious are the shortages that 4,000 packinghouse employees have been laid off and the government has even been forced at times to import cattle, both for local consumption and for export as corned beef. Moreover. Uruguay's Swiss-style...
...continuity acceptance department also wields the censor's pencil. Says Helffrich: "If every special interest were to constitute a new entry in a list of taboos, we'd have to go out of business." Helffrich, like CBS's Herbert A. Carlborg, carefully weighs each beef and tries, where justified and feasible, to do something about it. For example, he makes writers, producers and directors aware of complaint trends and of requests by such groups as the American Foundation for the Blind, e.g., don't use cliches like "blind-drunk" and "blind...
Catholic Taste. In Spring Creek, Pa., the sheriff was trying to deduce what sort of thieves they were who robbed Andrew Szewczuk of 1) 300 lbs. of frozen beef, 2) 1,000 phonograph records, 3) 40 gallons of paint, 4) a hot-water tank, 5) a grass seeder, 6) a leather jacket, 7) a pair of roller skates, and 8) some false-teeth powder...
...orchestra (now grown from 50 to 70 members) has surprised critics with its rapidly acquired ensemble discipline. It seems more successful with the works of Hungarian composers (Bartok, Kodaly) than in the standard repertory, stronger in the string section than in the brasses. To beef up the brass, Conductor Rozsnyai recently hired four Austrians; he also recruited an American violinist, clarinetist and horn player...
...signs are visible everywhere. British-not U.S.-cars choke Piccadilly, British weekers jam vacation resorts at Blackpool and Brighton. Simpson's in the Strand is serving its famed roast beef, and in poor neighborhoods, stores whose stock in trade was once chiefly Brussels sprouts and potatoes now feature oranges and even avocados. Across the North Sea. Scandinavians are thriving. Norway has rebuilt its merchant fleet to twice its prewar tonnage, added 100 hotels since 1945. Norwegian housewives, who bought only 2,000 washing machines in 1950, snapped up 64,000 last year. Even in chronically impoverished Ireland, real national...