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...deep southeastern triangle of Texas is a land of aching distances and blazing sun, of endless, string-straight roads and dusty little towns. Oil derricks stand on its horizons, and beef cattle move unseen amid its dreary leagues of tangled mesquite brush. To the west, across the Rio Grande, lies Mexico, to the east the cloud-hung Gulf. Spanish is the country's common tongue; the greater part of its people are poor, underpaid Mexican-Americans. For more than a half-century, southeast Texas has been the Land of Parr...
STEAK prices will go higher this year, meatmen predict, because drought and high feed prices caused many ranchers to reduce herds last year. Beef prices should hit a peak about 5% below last year's high by late July or August, remain there through next winter...
While farm prices dropped 10% and farm income 7% (to $13 billion), it was still the seventh best year for farmers-and they were a long way from disaster. One cattleman, for example, who went to Washington to plead for support prices for beef, said that the drought and falling prices had caused him to lose $100,000 in 1953; if that went on for another three or four years, said he, he would be broke...
...took Debussy ten years to finish his score. Then, in 1902, it had its first performance, and it made Debussy's reputation. Too delicate to qualify as operatic roast beef, Pelléas easily won a place in the repertory as a savory for connoisseurs. As such, last week, it was served up at Manhattan's Met after an absence of four seasons. It was the Met's best performance of the season...
...Papa . . . No Uncle Sam." U.S. forces were too weak in body and supplies to launch such an attack. Their two daily meals at dawn and twilight consisted mostly of sticky globs of rice and a few slivers of salmon and beef. In between, they sampled everything from roots and berries to mules and monkeys. Wrote one G.I.: "That monkey meat is all right until the animal's hands turn up on a plate." Beset by dysentery, dengue fever and malaria, badgered by enemy planes and artillery, blocked off from all aid, the men nursed their back-to-the-wall...