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...agriculture. People in developing countries eat roughly 400 Ibs. of grain per capita annually (barely more than the pound daily they need for survival), mostly in the form of bread or gruel; but an American consumes five times that amount, mostly in the form of grain-fed beef, pork and chicken. The industrial world's way of eating is an extremely inefficient use of resources. For every pound of beef consumed, a steer has gobbled up 20 Ibs. of grain. Harvard Nutritionist Jean Mayer notes that "the same amount of food that is feeding 210 million Americans would feed...
...eating Shake n Bake pork in the Adams dining hall when Felipe M. Noguera '76, a member of the Organization for the Solidarity of Third World Students, approached...
Ford was careful not to lose touch with Grand Rapids. He did not try to impress his constituents by loading his district with pork: using his influence to land lucrative defense contracts or military installations for Grand Rapids. He concentrated instead on personal service. European relatives of Grand Rapids citizens had little trouble migrating to America. Jerry Ford smoothed the way for them. In a biography of Ford that has just been published, Author Bud Vestal quotes a remark that has made the rounds in Michigan: "Every Dutch immigrant since Ford went to Congress just happens to have been...
...Daniel Fitz-Gerald, chairman of San Diego-based Wickes Corp., a big retailer of furniture and building supplies, predicts that Congress will not long remain pliant if Ford starts whacking away at the budget in earnest: "He will discover that once he starts tampering with everyone's favorite pork barrel, you can lose some friends fast." Milwaukee Banker Neil Johnston predicts that double-digit inflation will continue for some years, no matter who is President. But Ford has at least a chance to make a fresh start, and will benefit for a while from business and congressional eagerness...
...realistic and quite hilarious conclusion. One guy, who seems to be just easing out of a day driving the No. 4 bus, decks a well-groomed type in a flowered shirt. The whole bar erupts, the virtues of malt and macho are duly celebrated, and the place looks like Pork Chop Hill at the fadeout...