Word: beef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempt to beef up Harvard's paltry 147-yard-per game rushing totals in Ivy play, Coach John Yovicsin will be going with a drastically altered backfield...
...million people do not get enough protein-a basic building block of life-and even an end to the food shortage will not fill this critical lack. Though India has one-fifth of the world's cattle, religious taboos keep its per capita consumption of beef, a chief source of protein, the lowest of any major country's. Poverty and scarcity, as well as traditional vegetarianism, prevent many Indians from eating such protein-rich foods as fish, poultry and eggs...
...South Carolina's Democratic Senator Ernest Rollings meanwhile got 68 Senate cosponsors for a bill that would reduce imports of textiles from 2.7 billion sq. yds. a year to 1.7 billion sq. yds. In all, the seven bills would lower imports on a range of products including beef, mutton, veal, mink skins, zinc, footwear, oil, watches and dairy products. Even liberal Senators, under badgering from home, seemed sympathetic. Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire sided with the dairy interests. Both Kennedys agreed to sponsor quota measures opposed to the spirit of the Kennedy Round, which was named after their older brother...
...Detroit bargaining-table tradition, negotiators start talking in private only after they are ready to clam up in public. So it was not until two weeks ago, soon after United Auto Workers Boss Walter Reuther got in his last loud licks at a Detroit rally called to beef up the U.A.W.'s Ford strike fund, that the two sides declared a blackout on negotiation news. Last week the red headed union leader emerged from the blackout with a settlement that, he declared, was the "largest ever negotiated by the U.A.W. with any major corporation...
...than 40% of all the land in the U.S., account for 20% of all farm income and the principal revenues of at least eleven states; they are worth more annually than wheat, corn and cotton combined. But even with the average U.S. consumer eating a record 105.5 Ibs. of beef products a year, livestock prices have remained nearly constant for 15 years, while costs have risen 73%. "The cattle business is caught in a cost-price squeeze," says American National Cattlemen's Association Vice President C. William McMillan. "It is on shaky ground...