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ROLLING STONE magazine good-naturedly bestowed last year's Quote of the Year Award upon Frank Zappa for describing "rock journalism" as "People who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Articulate and outspoken, Zappa has never been afraid to bite the "invisible hand" that feeds him, even insulting the "boys and girls" who buy his records and scream for "Louie, Louie" from concert hall audiences...
...first Harvard catchers was Horatio Stevens White, the team captain from 1871-73. White became a professor of German at Harvard and eventually athletic director. In a retrospective that appeared in the Crimson in 1927, he noted that in the absence of a mask he "was accustomed to bite upon a large rubber eraser, to prevent dental demolition, with a surreptitious supplementary duplicate to lend to envious and suppliant professional backstops. But this was the principle concession made for defensive armor...
...orbit. During this year's first three months, average prices for beef cuts are up 9%, to $2.23 per lb., and are expected to climb a further 25% by year's end. Because high prices at meat counters are such an immediate indicator of inflation's bite, consumers are clamoring for Washington to do something to bring them down...
THEY'RE FAMOUS down on Capitol Hill for the ability to revive issues that are better left six feet under. Lately, they've been resuscitating a subject most of us were happy to see bite the dust four years ago. In 1975, then-President Ford watched the Indochina conflict wind down to its agonizing end and put the country's Selective Service System on "deep standby" status. Meanwhile, Ford initiated the system of All-Volunteer Forces (AVF), a program aimed at keeping the nation's military system sufficiently staffed without resorting to conscription...
...time when Carter is fighting to hold down the federal budget deficit, advocates of various domestic programs are clamoring for more money, and inflation is a foremost concern of Americans. White House aides scoff at any inflationary impact of the treaty. "It's just a flea bite on that elephant," says one. But as the near euphoria over the peace treaty fades and the costs linger−and most likely increase−congressional and public resistance to paying the price could yet prove a formidable problem...