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...been forced to build $2,800,000 worth of multilevel parking garages, plus other parking areas, which all take in $964,000 a year in fees. Yet this costly effort provides only 10,486 campus spaces for 38,800 students and teachers, and a 60-man staff has to herd U.C.L.A. cars in and out like SAC bombers on a red alert...
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...