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Eleven Harvard couples, including 240-ib. Neil Curtin (the heaviest member of Harvard's football team) and his date, piled unsuspectingly into the Quincy House elevator on the sixth floor shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday night...
...with Perón. The estancieros' undoing began in 1944 with the rise of Dictator Juan Perón, who promised his lower-class descamisados (shirtless ones) steak on every plate and decreed meat prices as low as 6? a Ib. When the landowners opposed him, Per¶n ordered prohibitive land taxes, forcing the breakup of many ranches, decreed 60% wage boosts for workers, lured away cow hands by promising still higher wages in newly established industries. The most far-reaching legislation of all was an inheritance law that provided that each heir must get an equal share...
...bind the Senator's five daily postal consignments. Some folks might conceivably think her behavior a trifle odd, but not "Salty." He knows whereby hangs a tale to tell the voters of Massachusetts, so he called in photographers and bowled them over with Judy's 9¾-Ib. round of twine. "Let's get the ball rolling," he twanged...
Worse than Last Year. Cuba bought 10,000 tons on the French market for shipment to Red China, another 10,000 tons from Britain to send to Bulgaria. In the rest of 1964, Cuba says it will sell no sugar on the world market, where prices are 80 a Ib. v. the 60 Castro gets from his Red friends. This puts Castro in a worse position than last year, when the Russians allowed him to sell 1,000,000 tons on the world market, thus earning a windfall of vital dollars to buy Western buses, trucks, tractors and spare parts...
...maintain that they enjoy no substantial savings. For one thing, their share of the retail price of beef must pay for rising labor costs ($3.57 an hour for male cutters, $2.91 for women wrappers) and for the increased cost of handling, cutting and wrapping, which amounts to 90 a Ib. Moreover, many housewives no longer will buy cheap cuts of meat, preferring to buy steaks that they can throw on the broiler rather than a 590-per-lb. portion of stew meat that needs to be cooked most of the day. Since there are fewer prime cuts, the demand tends...