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...Council on Wage and Price Stability held two days of hearings about sugar prices. The council, which has no authority to order price rollbacks, carefully refrained from fixing blame. But it did present a study made by its staff that concluded that all sections of the sugar industry -cane and beet growers and refiners -have made "very large windfall gains." For example, Amstar Corp., the nation's largest sugar refiner, has recorded a 221% rise in profits so far this year, and Great Western United Corp., the biggest U.S. beet-sugar processor, has raised its profits by a spectacular...
...hundred thousand copies of this dress were sold." Then she straightened the hat worn by Vivien Leigh when Scarlett O'Hara bailed out Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, and marveled at the exotic headpiece that disguised Greta Garbo in Mata Hari. When she got to the cane Mae West leaned on in films like She Done Him Wrong, Mrs. Vreeland briskly struck down one of Hollywood's fondest delusions. "Mae had quite a small bust, you know; it was all done with corsets...
...that the TV crews could hear was an electronic hissing. But newsmen did learn that Nixon was still driving a golf cart to his office a short distance from the house. He was seen in the swimming pool and walking about the grounds without crutches or a cane...
...Bufo, a South American native, was drafted into Queensland service by way of Hawaii in 1935 to help get rid of the cane beetle that was threatening the sugar fields. The Aussies got more than they hoped for. Supplementing its diet with varied and copious helpings of other insects and frogs, the cane toad may live for 40 years, grow to be eight inches long and three pounds in weight, produce up to 40,000 eggs a year, kill cats and dogs with a glandular poison it secretes, and upset the natural balance of some areas...
...When 18 Bufos escaped from a consignment to a biology teacher at steamy Darwin, in the Northern Territory, it was immediately clear that not all Australians regard the amphibian gourmands with the equanimity of Queenslanders, who have grown used to skidding in their cars along toad-covered roads. The cane toad, said one member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council, is "loathsome and repulsive," and the council rushed through a bill anathematizing it as "an outlaw ... a pest to be destroyed on sight...