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Once a cattleman chooses to keep rather than sell his heifers, the long, three-year breeding cycle begins. A heifer born this spring cannot be bred for another 15 months. This is followed by a nine-month gestation period. Since most producers like to breed their cows twice before sending them to market, this spring's newborn calf will not be ready for slaughter until early 1982. Only then are prices likely to ease. Says Alfred Kahn, the White House inflation adviser: "While ranchers are rebuilding their herds, prices will probably stay well above 1978 levels for the next...
...brides themselves are often the most unfortunate victims of the system. Says Margaret Cormack, an American sociologist who has made an extensive study of the dowry practice: "Indian women well know the humiliation of being exhibited to scouting parties like a prize heifer." Young wives are frequently mistreated by in-laws who later decide that the dowry was inadequate. In New Delhi alone last year, 89 women committed suicide because they could not stand the persecution of their husbands and in-laws who wanted additional dowry payments...
...Bashevis Singer nothing could be worse than to become obsessed with the Holocaust. In "The Yearning Heifer," a Polish immigrant praises the writer/narrator for his column in the weekly Yiddish paper. "The news is all bad. Hitler this, Hitler that. He should burn like a fire, the bum, the no-good. What does he want from the Jews?" But this passes quickly from the story--as deeply and sincerely as it is felt--so the narrator can talk about his main subject...
...stopped clocks of his shop, places his parchment ear against an out-of-tune grandfather's clock; a barber, with a dry brush, lathers the cheekbones of an actor learning his role, studying the script with hollow sockets: a girl with a laughing skull milks the carcass of a heifer...
...Judge Heifer was impressed. Although he increased Marie-Madeleine's damages to a total of $3,000, he suspended the defendants' sentences...