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...grain subsidy increases. But representatives from Midwestern farm states were defiant, partly because the White House had earlier agreed to maintain subsidies on sugar, peanuts and tobacco as a way of gaining Southern Democratic votes for its economic package. In fact, resentment over those deals led to a breakdown of the traditional backscratching among Southern and Midwestern Representatives. After winning their grain and dairy supports, most Midwesterners joined other Congressmen to defeat a package of sugar and peanut programs that had been passed by the Senate. Caught between principles and promises, the Administration stood unhappily on the sidelines...
...there's going to be a scapegoat here it's going to be the coach," says one coach pragmatically. But coaches often see the breakdown in player-coach relations as rooted in the athlete who, perhaps because of the absence of scholarships, feels no commitment to either the coach or team...
...customary tumblers of bourbon-and garnering a local reputation for the classical cuisine. Hired by high-powered Grace Greenwood to demonstrate gourmet-food preparation in supermarkets, he is shocked to discover that the executive gorgon is Winona's lesbian lover. Blaine's wife has an erotic nervous breakdown in Reinhart's bedroom. Genevieve returns to stage a breakdown of her own. Helen Clayton, his supermarket assistant, bolsters Reinhart's flagging sexuality with motel trysts. A neighbor, Edie Mulhouse, as big as the hero himself, writes manic mash notes. Bewildered, Reinhart observes, "Women in general had grown...
...Treasury has refused to release a country-by-country breakdown of OPEC investments in the U.S. since 1974, when then Secretary of the Treasury William Simon agreed to the request by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait for confidentiality in exchange for substantial increases in their purchases of U.S. Government securities...
...Army advantage was most apparent at the respective lines. In the first and third quarter, the Crimson offensive line managed to protect Cuccia, freeing him to practice his offensive wizardry in relative peace. But a second-quarter breakdown--not as serious as last week's disastrous second stanza against Holy Cross--choked the Cuccia style, and obviously worn out lines on both sides of the ball could neither protect Cuccia nor stop Walker--who ran for 100 yards in the second half...