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What is the main cause for the sharp rise in meat and other food prices, and who benefits most from it? Consumers often complain that big business is the culprit, but that, in fact, is a bad rap. Supermarkets operate on profit margins as thin as wrapping paper; .9% on sales is the current average margin. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. lost $55 million last year largely because of its "WHO" discounting drive. The so-called middlemen are also largely blameless, though President Nixon last year fingered them as the main perpetrators of the food price jump. The meat...
...dimensions. On the Orient Express Henry smokes dope with a wealthy blue-jeaned backpacking American girl. Her father is in the CIA, her boyfriend a pop artist, and she can talk of nothing but the fact that her period is late and whom among her countless bedmates could the culprit be? Then Henry sleeps with her. The girl is a modern version of Aunt Augusta stripped of the illusions. She faces facts with the same irresponsible gaiety in which Aunt Augusta cloaked her dreams. It is a bare-faced present, made out to have all the substance of the past...
...unctuous army officers waited to do young Somoza's bidding; for the moment, he had other things on his mind, namely his misplaced automobile. "Where is my car?" he demanded. "I want the person who took it arrested immediately," he said, and ran off in search of the culprit. Silence. Since nothing could be done without a Somoza signature, all relief activity stopped for a while...
...against permissiveness, and yet the courts increasingly permit all varieties of sexual behavior and expression. The falling birth rate and the proliferating variety of mating arrangements may signify a new enlightenment, or the end of the old morality, depending upon one's point of view. Whether Eve was culprit or victim in the forced evacuation of Paradise is now an issue raised by some feminists. The female orgasm and male impotence are the serious, not to say solemn objects of growing scientific studies. Equality between men and women in all fields is an agitated cause...
...pocketed all the deposit slips at the writing desks of the Riggs National Bank and replaced them with his own electronically coded forms. For three days, every customer who came in without a personal slip and used one of the "blank" forms was actually depositing money into the culprit's account. The thief reappeared, withdrew $100,000 and walked away; he has not yet been found...