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Economically, the easiest way to bring meat prices down would be to import more inexpensive meat. Politically, though, that course is barred by two sets of quotas: mandatory quotas provided by a law passed in 1964, and "voluntary" quotas added in 1968 to avoid triggering the mandatory quotas. The voluntary quotas are reviewed yearly, and two years ago they were relaxed slightly in order to slow an earlier rise in meat prices. Agriculture Department officials conducting this year's review, however, make it clear that any further relaxation in this presidential election year will have to be decided...
Harvard coach Bill Cleary doesn't want to think about the showdown with B.U. Monday night until after the Penn game. "We've beaten these guys twice now, and it's the easiest thing in the world to get overconfident and start looking at the games ahead. But Penn has improved since we played them in December, and they have a bunch of really good forwards," he said...
...what of the others? The Atlantic's Denby, free-lancer Brad Darrach, Saturday Review's Alpert, Life's Schickel, Playboy's Bruce Williamson? They're all likable writers, all riding home on their easiest talents, with little seeming to worry them beyond filling a page with sprightly opinionation--devil take the relevant focus. Film criticism has reached its premature middle-age, gaining pot bellies and pot heads instead of mature vitality...
Today's triangular will be the Crimson's easiest contest of the year. Wesleyan lost to Yale Wednesday night, 49-3: CCNY is comprised of a squad including three untested freshman, three wrestlers with no competitive experience, and two empty weight classes...
...unite most elements of the nation's majority party with the smallest flake-off at either end. Muskie could bring to television an effective counterimage to Nixon, as he did on election eve last November. Of Humphrey, Muskie and Kennedy, Nixon's political advisers think Humphrey would be the easiest to defeat. "He's got all those scars," says a Republican National Committee official, "and if you get Hubert, you're likely to get a fourth party...