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...housewife is squeamish about strangulation, there is a handful of books and writers that provide an adequately mixed bag of recipes for those of more modest ambitions. James Beard, author of everything from a basic cookbook to Cook It Outdoors, is a gifted milker of the cooking-boom cow...
...National Committee polished off its substantive business in a single session of less than four hours. The committeemen picked Atlantic City as the site for the 1964 presidential convention, set the date for Aug. 24, six weeks after the G.O.P. convention to be held in San Francisco's Cow Palace. One reason for the site choice was that Democrats figure on a rather dull convention in which Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson will be routinely renominated. Atlantic City's besonged Boardwalk might offer bored delegates a chance for cut-rate, nonpolitical amusement...
Since then, Japan's emergent Socialists have introduced a whole new array of techniques, many more or less nonviolent. The most popular is ushi aruki, or cow-walking. Realizing that they cannot block the overwhelming conservative majority, the Socialists do their best to slow business to a standstill. In balloting sessions, each Socialist member gets up slowly as his name is called, shuffles toward the rostrum with the shortest steps possible. Where it takes 230 conservatives only 15 minutes to vote, 120 Socialists consume as much as an hour and a half. Cow-walking is combined with sitdown strikes...
...Enough Bodies. This year, with a backlog of 66 bills still stalled in committee, Premier Ikeda ordered his men to push them through before the Diet session closes July 6. When the government party recently used its majority to force a vote on a controversial relief-law revision, cow-walking was no longer enough. Fists and ashtrays started to fly. Battling lawmakers shouted: "Respect parliamentary procedures!" The brawling later spread to the cabinet committee, where five bills were stalled. Socialists massed around the committee-room door to prevent Chairman Tadanori Nagayama from entering...
...about. (Margarine makers spend some $22 million a year to convince them subtly that they do, and both sides quote the American Medical Association to make their points.) Every U.S. taxpayer has a stake in the dairy industry's success. Despite a drop in the U.'S. cow population from 20.6 million (1950-59 average) to 17.3 million this year, the industry's growing efficiency has nudged production up 5.8% in ten years to an expected 127 billion Ibs. of dairy products this year. Result: the Federal Government will pay out more than $500 million...