Word: herding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week another herd of defendants, 23 in all, faced a Moscow court -charged with having organized the biggest wheeler-dealer operation yet reported, a flourishing textile business that netted $3,300,000 in four years. The Russian press gave this account: one Bentsion Roifman, a public-health functionary in a Moscow workers' district, bribed his way into a job overseeing several physical therapy workshops for mental patients. Enlisting some aides, Roifman proceeded to convert the workshops to his own use. He brought into the scheme state factory executives from as far away as Leningrad and the Ukraine...
...real problem is back home on the range, where too many people are raising too much cattle. Last year, as cattlemen held their cows off the market in hopes of higher prices, the U.S. herd expanded by 6% to 106 million head worth $13.5 billion. Swift, Armour and other packers are feeding much of their own cattle in direct competition with the independent cattlemen; so are such supermarket chains as Food Fair and National...
Mark Meyers' contribution, "Faint Hearts and Fair Ladies," is a short, personal spoof of Harvard emancipation, "the last gasp of the parietals issue." It is a nice bit of whimsy until you realize that Mr. Meyers is serious, the last gasp of provincialism. His facetious suggestion that the University herd streetwalkers into the senior common rooms might once have been funny, but is now only blainel...
...years. But for city dwellers, Volov-chenko's promised bounty came too late. After a winter of scarcities, they learned only two weeks before the meeting that fodder shortages last fall had forced farmers to slaughter 29 million hogs-more than 40% of Russia's entire swine herd-as well as record numbers of cattle and sheep, thus assuring that scarce meat will be scarcer than ever for the next few years...
...Prospective tourists must get permission from their local police, and since individual travel is allowed only when the tourist has a specific invitation, most East Germans travel in officially organized groups, stay in shabby, second-class hotels. This permits Walter Ulbricht's hard-eyed functionaries to ride close herd on them, makes meeting in hotel rooms risky. But the twain meet anyway-on beaches and volleyball courts, in parks and restaurants...