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...supermarket meat counter looks more like an upheaval. Retail beef and lamb prices have reached 20-year highs; pork prices, which slipped 16.6% early last year, are again climbing toward record levels. Just since the start of 1972, a Manhattan housewife has had to pay 12.6% more for a pound of pork chops...
...curb emissions of sulfur oxides at a reasonable cost. Conservation groups, on the other hand, argue that the proposed tax is too low to force industry to develop improved "scrubbers" to remove sulfur from chimney gases. By their reckoning, it costs 190 for present devices to remove a pound of sulfur from fumes, while the proposed tax is only 100 to 150 per pound. As a result, they fear that industry would pay the tax rather than clean the fumes, and that it would build new plants only in areas where the air is still clean. In any case...
...more mundane level, the paper adopted a scraggly mutt from a Miami dog pound last month and invited readers to name him. Pope promises to take the dog to Manhattan's prestigious Westminster show to meet his betters, and then to Hollywood for a session with Lassie. The Enquirer will note every hydrant stop along...
Organ Marathon. Musical experience not necessary. The person who can pound on an organ longest wins a mighty Wurlitzer. Contest starts Feb. 19. Call Mr. Herrick 482-6300 for entry blanks...
Organ Marathon. Musical experience not necessary. The person who can pound on an organ longest wins a mighty Wurlitzer. Contest starts Feb. 19. Call Mr. Herrick 482-6300 for entry blanks...