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Government economists nonetheless see a glimmer of hope for the months ahead. The wholesale price index, which usually leads the consumer index, has remained steady for two months. Urged on by President Johnson, housewives have shown increasing resistance to higher prices, bringing the price of pork down for the first time in four months...
Rivers-and-harbors bills are sometimes referred to as "pork-barrel bills," since Congressmen often attempt to have a pet project included. But Maass and Cooper contend that "the bill is more the President's bill than is much legislation, for almost all the projects in it have been recommended...
...Guinea. Potentially one of the richest of the French West African states, it is now going to seed as only a nationalized African state can. In the capital city of Conakry, the nationalized Printania store displays empty shelves, broken windows, and East European canned goods (gulyás, pickled pork, beans), as well as toy Chinese Communist trucks at $8 apiece and East German pliers for $4. Women queue up for soap powder, tin buckets and sandals cut from old bicycle tires...
Saving the Cities. Armed with a slide rule, which he keeps on his desk, Whelan constantly casts about for new economies. As a result of his pork paring, the Jersey City tax rate has been reduced by $2.84 per $1,000 of assessed valuation-luring back industry that had long since gone elsewhere...
Tommy & the Deluge. The battleground was the annual college draft, and pro football's version of Pork Chop Hill was Tommy Nobis, a 230-lb. All-America linebacker from Texas whose collar size (19½) alone was enough to make both leagues reach for their checkbooks. Tommy was drafted No. 1 by both the N.F.L.'s newly franchised Atlanta Falcons and the A.F.L.'s Houston Oilers. With no coach, no schedule, no training camp and no plays, the Falcons apparently had nothing to offer Nobis except money: by last week they had already sold...