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...passed as part of the continuing cat-and-mouse game between Congress and the President. In August 1970 inflation was climbing and job rolls were shrinking. Anxious about the economy, Wright Patman, the aged and wily chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, decided to put the President on the spot. He maneuvered to attach the Economic Stabilization Act with its wage and price controls as an amendment to a bill extending the life of the Defense Production Act, which was about to expire. The provision was approved by both Democrat-controlled houses of Congress...
...crowded kennels, often going on hunger strikes or catching troublesome diseases. For many French pets, those weeks of anguish are now a thing of the past. For about $3 per day, a new pet vacation club will find a pet-loving, nonvacationing family that will take in a cat or a dog-or even a parakeet or snake-during the owner's absence...
...similar breed but of the opposite sex awaits it. For an extra $2 or $3 per day, the pet receives a weekly "toilette" and food delicacies, and the host family* writes regular reports to the vacationing owner. The club even provides its own version of the Guide Michelin. Cat-housing families are awarded ratings of one mouse, two mice or three mice; and dog boarders get from one to three bones...
...Long before ecology became fashionable, a Finnish mink breeder named Emil Hoglund began his drive to protect spotted cats. Finding a mutant female mink with pale brown spots on its white fur, he carefully bred it with a normal mink. After nine years of inbreeding, Hoglund had produced a new strain: a deeply spotted mink with a strong resemblance to the jaguar, which has been hunted to near extinction for its luxurious pelt. Manhattan furrier Reiss & Fabrizio has received the first of the "Fin-Jaguar" furs from the Danish firm Keppo, and has the coats on sale...
...moths can eat the weight of a diesel locomotive in one year. And that the average housewife washes 2.5 million kitchen utensils during her lifetime, the equivalent of a stack of dishes 70 times as high as the Empire State Building. And that 9.2 billion strokes of a cat's back would generate enough electricity to light a 75-watt bulb for exactly one minute...