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...threadbare quality because that is all factories can afford to make at state-set prices. Massive government subsidies must be paid to industries and to Soviet agriculture in order to keep prices steady despite regular rises in production costs, caused by inefficient use of workers and machines. The subsidies chew up capital that would otherwise be invested in new plant and equipment and contribute to the persistent inability of Communist economies to expand fast enough to meet demands of consumers...
...want to bite off more than we can chew by getting involved in a secondary boycott," he said. Golden said, however, he will direct Harwich Lithographers to drop the Union insignia from the Gazette during the strike...
Papain, an enzyme derived from the papaya plant, is a familiar item to most housewives. Sold in grocery stores as a meat tenderizer, it can make even the toughest cuts easy to chew. Now papain is moving from the kitchen into the operating room. At hospitals in Boston and Chicago, doctors are using the extract (known medically as chymopapain) to tenderize slipped spinal discs, a treatment that relieves pain and spares many patients surgery...
Foil--Roy Nonomura, Cornell; Richard Peretti, Princeton; Paul Chew, Columbia; Sabre--Losonczy, Columbia; David Jacobsen, Yale; House, Yale. Epee--Larry Kramer, Columbia; Daryl Taylor, Pennsylvania...
...course, none of this has been getting too much attention lately. About the only thing for which people are still criticizing Ford is his alleged lack of intelligence, a criticism that has been made for years. Lyndon Johnson reportedly once remarked that Ford was too stupid to walk and chew gum at the same time, because in college, Johnson explained, Ford had played football on too many occasions without wearing his helmet. When Eugene McCarthy spoke at the Law School Forum here two years ago, he apologized for having supported legislation that Ford came out for five years later. "When...