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...national character. One is "back East," a little overbred and intellectual for a Texan's taste. The other is "out West," big and rough and physical. Massachusetts evokes Calvinism and Brahmins and John Kennedy. Texas is the fenceless dreamland of American individualism, where the native exuberance went to herd cows and sling guns and strike oil. It means Giant, Lyndon Johnson and everything bigger and louder than it ought...
...last week began an 18- month program of buying 400 million lbs. of red meat for school lunches, overseas military bases and other uses. But for the next several months, those purchases are not expected to keep pace with the dairy slaughter. Says Rancher Jack Sparrowk, who runs a herd of 25,000 cattle near Sacramento: "The USDA is asleep at the switch...
...Farmer Kevin Main's farrowing barn near Altona, Ill., the newborn piglets lay on their sides, their tiny feet paddling frantically in the air. A day later they were dead. "It was not a pleasant thing," Main recalls. "We lost over a hundred." Main's 480-swine herd had been hit by pseudorabies, a disease caused by a herpes virus that attacks the central nervous system of pigs, sheep, cattle and other animals. Nearly always fatal in young pigs, it causes symptoms ranging from disoriented wandering to skin lesions to convulsions, and can lead to reproductive failure in animals that...
...overcome the interservice rivalry that has impeded military planning by the Joint Chiefs and execution by commanders in the field. The President also backed the creation of a "procurement czar," an Under Secretary of Defense to oversee the purchase of new weapons systems for all service branches and ride herd on a Pentagon bureaucracy that has produced $640 toilet covers and $7,600 coffee pots. In another report to be released this week, the Packard commission charges that "all too many of our weapons systems cost too much, take to long to develop and by the time they are fielded...
...ride herd on the overlapping and fractured weapons-buying bureaucracy, the commission would create a "Procurement Czar," formally known as the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition...