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...without reason did Sissman identify Cavett's current residence as "East Egg, Long Island," for Cavett is a modern-day Gatsby who this time has really made it all the way, coming out of the Midwest and through the back door (show biz, instead of bootlegging) to genuine social and financial success in the East. What aspiring Harvard undergrad, watching the show stoned during exam period, could ask for more...
...Binary, which Crichton has just finished directing as an ABC-TV movie, a brilliant millionaire fanatic named Wright plots to destroy Richard Nixon. Wright believes that the President sold out the nation by breaking egg rolls with the Red Chinese. The Republican Party and the population of San Diego will have to go too, because Wright plans to saturate the city with nerve gas during the forthcoming national convention...
...women without child. It has a loose, comfortable style that was born of the peasant blouses still available in the bazaars of Europe. If that isn't enough to give the nonpregnant pause, two young Manhattan women have designed and are selling the Pregnancy Puff-an egg-shaped, beige satin pillow that ties on round the middle with pink and blue satin ribbons. It has just one function: worn under clothing, it makes a woman look pregnant...
Last week the Senate Agriculture Committee approved the egg industry adjustment act, which would require each producer to slaughter a percentage of his hens. The bloodletting could be ordered only after eggs had sold below the cost of production for three straight months, and only upon approval by two-thirds of the nation's producers in a referendum. Compliance would be enforced with fines of up to $5,000. Such drastic measures are warranted, argues Committee Chairman Herman Talmadge of Georgia, to avoid a rash of chicken-farm bankruptcies. "They have been selling eggs below the cost of production...
Agriculture Committee staffers give the bill a good chance of passage in the Senate. The measure could result in the eventual execution of millions of hens and the recovery of egg prices to at least last year's levels. Even if the bill does not pass, enough bankruptcies among egg producers would eventually drive prices back up anyway. In either case, the loser stands to be the consumer, who is already aggrieved by rising prices of most other foods...