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Though Sandburg's "hog butcher for the world'' is no more (many of the slaughterhouses have moved out), Chicago remains a mercantile and industrial center for the nation. Its wholesale and retail trade runs better than $33 billion a year. The city handles more freight cars daily-26,000-than New York and St. Louis combined, boasts terminals for 20 rail lines. Its motor arteries are clogged by 800,000 truck trips daily. Its McCormick Place is the nation's biggest convention hall, plays host to organizations that spend more than $200 million a year...
...yearly consideration of "a fat wether, a fat hog, or 40 shillings in money," the Great and General Court of Massachusetts in its assembly of 1633 granted to Samuel Maverick a plot of land which had come to be known as Noddle's Island...
...Nassau itself, the vacationer with a well-lined wallet can get away from teeming tourists, beach bums, surly service and bad food for $60 to $70 per couple per day at Huntington Hartford's somewhat Hollywoodish Ocean Club on Paradise Island (long called by a less idyllic name: Hog Island) or at Lyford Cay (pronounced key). Lyford Cay is a club, founded five years ago, where a couple (if found acceptable) may rent one of the 50 guest bedrooms ($56 a day) in the clubhouse or a two-bedroom cottage ($140 a day) like those occupied by President Kennedy...
Back in the years when most Americans were manual workers, they needed lots of fat for muscle fuel. So farmers encouraged their hogs to get as obese as circus fat ladies. But times have changed. Most modern Americans make little muscular effort, and hog fat is high on the list of dietary enemies. Farmers feed their hogs carefully to keep them from producing too much lard, fat back and sowbelly...
Since the new Watergate project will replace an abandoned gasworks, Washingtonians might have been expected to greet it with delight. Instead, a number of architects and critics are protesting vigorously that Watergate would hog Washington's skyline and dwarf nearby federal buildings. Watergate's architects pacified some of these critics with modest design changes, but are still fighting off an outfit called Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which sees dark meanings in the fact that Watergate is to be built by Italy's Societa Generale Immobiliare, in which the Vatican holds...