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...agent of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency slips into a railroad yard and checks the wear on ball hearings of freight cars coming in from China to try to spot unusual troop movements. Meanwhile, another agent goes to the Hong Kong central market and buys a large order of calf's liver from animals raised in China to run a lab test for radioactive fallout...
...fashion world thrives on small controversies; last week's was over skirt length. To some retailers, some of the BigSkirts looked like a secondhand midi of a few seasons back. That calf-length style was a fiasco. Said Sara Monteil, a buyer for Continental Purchasing Co.: "American buyers remember the midi just like the Alamo and they aren't going to repeat old mistakes." Griped Norman Wechsler of Saks Fifth Avenue to Women's Wear Daily: "The last time we had the long lengths, even the stock market went down." Bob Sakowitz, executive vice pres ident...
Normally, there would be ample opportunity for all the people involved in the long food-production and marketing process to reap a reasonable profit. In the normal chain of events for beef, for example, the farmer sells his calf to a feedlot operator, who is one of the middlemen. He in turn fattens the animal and often sells it to a meatpacker for a few cents less per pound than he bought it. The feedlot operator hopes to profit by adding considerable weight to the animal in a relatively short time, but his problem lately has been that feed costs...
...nation they were supposedly "defending." The experience is especially bitter for those thousands who came back maimed or crippled. In one scene of Hogarthian savagery not long ago, television audiences watched a legless vet in a bar near Washington's Walter Reed Hospital blearily drinking beer from his prosthetic calf...
...further by Thanksgiving. Many ranchers who rushed their cattle to feed lots prematurely because of high prices and a drought that dried up grazing land are now rebuilding their herds. Such expansion initially reduces cattle supplies and drives up prices because heifers, which make up half of the calf crop, are held back for breeding purposes...