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...will be spitted like a hog," muttered one of Napoleon's unimaginative professionals. But Henri Beyle, in whom genius and absurdity were uniquely compounded, somehow survived-and under the pen name of "Stendhal" immortalized his adventures in soldiery in two great works of fiction: The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma...
Confidently, Mr. Truman saw meat ahead. Grass-fed cattle (chased from high plateaus by cold weather) would soon begin to appear in the markets. Hog feeders, viewing a record corn crop (673,000,000 bushels in Iowa), saw the opportunity to make a profit from feeding to heavier weights, so hogs might be late. But they would be along. "The dire predictions of a meat famine are without basis," said the President: "An increase in prices or the abandonment of price control on meat now would . . . add to rather than solve our difficulties...
...term congressional elections can be pretty dull affairs when there is no presidential contest to whip up enthusiasm for platforms to accentuate party differences. The coming elections in November promise no deviation from this tradition. Despite some introductory fanfares and blatant hog-calling at state conventions, indications are that both major political parties are resolved in giving the public a rather murky presentation of the basic issues at stake...
...tanks and four truckloads of soldiers, crowds yell: "Tito, Ti-to!" (to the familiar rhythm of "Duce, Du-ce!"). Children chant: "Kral se zenio, Tito se borio" ("The King married, Tito fought"). Ancient ballads praising ex-King Peter's ancestor (Kara George, a prominent Serbian hero and hog farmer) are changed to fit Tito. Sample...
...ceilings on meat were not the only cause, or the main one. The main reason was that cattle and hog raisers had sent every animal they could to market, to cash in when ceilings had been off. Lean cattle were again going to feeder lots to be held in the expectation that ceilings would again be lifted...