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...rattlers so far this year, and as one housewife said, "It's hardly even summer." One man found a snake coiled on the front seat of his car. The snakes slither across manicured lawns, nest in the coolness of garages and patios. Reid Waddell, a 42-year-old butcher, bent down to pick up his evening paper and saw a rattler side-winding across his driveway...
...your Gunter Grass cover story [April 13], you refer to former West German Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss as having once been a member of the Nazi party. Strauss was never a member of the Nazi party. On the contrary, Strauss's father, a butcher, was an outspoken anti-Nazi. As for Strauss himself, he was drafted into the army, and his repeated criticism of Hitler's war caused him no end of trouble. At war's end, having been cleared of any Nazi connections by the American occupation forces, he was made a civilian administrative official...
...selections. Last week Prague grocers had ample supplies of apples, potatoes, celery and tomatoes, but little else. Even beer and sausage are sometimes in short supply. Veal has not been available for months. If a housewife wants a decent cut of beef or pork, she often must bribe the butcher with scarce items such as ball point pens or a few yards of suit cloth. For months store shelves in Czechoslovakia have been bare of everyday items like flashlight batteries, warm shoes, bed linen and towels. Until the government authorized emergency imports two months ago, there was also a shortage...
When Ling-Temco-Vought took over Chicago's Wilson & Co. in 1967, James J. Ling showed the finesse of a butcher slicing a juicy porterhouse. He carved the company into three parts-meat packing, sporting goods and drugs-and sold pieces of each part to the public. The three parts, and their stocks, were quickly nicknamed "meatball," "golf ball" and "goofball." Now Ling is cutting his meatball into hamburger. Five companies will be chopped out of Wilson's meat operations: Wilson Certified Foods, Wilson Beef & Lamb, Wilson Laurel Farms, Wilson-Sinclair and Wilson Agri-Business Enterprises...
PHILIP EVANS, called the jolliest of Welsh martyrs, who was playing court tennis when told that he had to die for being a priest ordained abroad. First, the story goes, he finished the game. MARGARETCLITHEROW, comely wife of a Yorkshire butcher, who was pressed to death with a sharp stone under her back for the crime of harboring priests...