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...Hog Wild. In recent testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, Time Inc. Board Chairman Andrew Heiskell said that a huge second-class increase could compromise the First Amendment guarantee of a free press by affecting magazines' ability to survive. He cited some potentially disastrous arithmetic: "pretax earnings of all magazines in 1970 were about $50 million. Under the present proposal, magazines would pay $130 million more for mail service by 1976 . . . Magazines can be killed by Government, by denying them the revenues that they require to exist, or by making it impossible for them to distribute their...
...waves for broadcast media." Democratic Congressman Charles Wilson, a member of the House Post Office Committee, believes a public service like the mails should not be allowed to set rates so high as to limit its use. Said Wilson of the Postal Service: "They've gone hog wild." How many other members of Congress agree remains to be seen...
...trimmed the size of their herds and litters. Now that a bumper corn harvest has made feed cheaper again, cattlemen find it profitable to hold their steers in feed lots longer to wait for beef prices to go still higher. In January, beef production ran 3% behind demand and hog output lagged 17%. Substituting other foods is not the housewives' answer either. The USDA estimates that all retail food prices will rise...
...themselves up, and for the past eight years Yokoi had to fend for himself. He kept time by marking a "calendar" tree at each full moon. Food in the jungle was plentiful, and he survived on a diet of mangoes, nuts, crabs, prawns, snails, rats, eels, pigeons and wild hog. A tailor before he was drafted in 1941, Yokoi had kept a pair of scissors, with which he trimmed his hair and cut cloth that he made from tree-bark fibers for clothes. His home was a subterranean cave in the jungle with a floor of soft leaves...
Chopping in the field. Warren County. Hog-killing time. Hinds County. WPA farm-to-market road worker. Lowndes County. Saturday off Jackson. With a dog. Madison County. With a baby. Hinds County. With a chum. Madison County. Home. Claiborne County. Home. Pearl River. Home. Jackson. A slave's apron showing souls in progress to Heaven or Hell. Yalobusha County. Ida M'Toy, retired midwife. Jackson...