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...Rap. Other species are also being endangered by the meat shortage. The California fish and game department reports many more cases of deer poaching this year than last. "Poaching generally involved hippies trying to live off the land, but now we are getting older people trying to combat the rising cost of meat," says a park warden. Last week 100 pheasants were filched from their pens at the Quemahoning Trap and Field Club at Laurel Mountain, Pa. Even hijackings have been reported. Burglars looted 420 canned hams from a tractor truck parked off Interstate 70 near Pittsburgh...
What is the main cause for the sharp rise in meat and other food prices, and who benefits most from it? Consumers often complain that big business is the culprit, but that, in fact, is a bad rap. Supermarkets operate on profit margins as thin as wrapping paper; .9% on sales is the current average margin. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. lost $55 million last year largely because of its "WHO" discounting drive. The so-called middlemen are also largely blameless, though President Nixon last year fingered them as the main perpetrators of the food price jump. The meat...
Psalms of Two Davids, by Joel Schwartz '66. For those who missed George Wald's "rap session" on Cain and Abel last year, in which he explained it all. Song and dance, not to mention theater. At the Loeb...
...ritual, deliberate sinning, of the afternoon cigarette and beer begins. Her ritual of reorienting herself to this place of odd noises and smells. She snaps the radio on. The jive soul station. The jive rap of a jive brother, and the ditty-bop love songs. It all soothes over her current terror with pastel washes of nostalgia. Except sometimes the bouncing bass of the dj, startling her with its abrasive masculinity. Making her remember. Discord...
...lyrical, is a mistress of controlled hysteria. She skillfully presses her polarized universe upon her reader and indeed upon her race. She may be excessively hard on civilization. But, as only a really gifted writer can, she turns paranoia into art, forcing her rapidly industrializing fellow countrymen - her rap idly overindustrializing world - to contemplate the hate in the bloody eye of one of their victims: the "pure pain, clear as water, an animal's at the moment the trap closes." ∙Melvin Maddocks