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Scarcities of milk and other dairy products could develop by August. Herrell DeGraff, president of the American Meat Institute, predicts that beef supplies could well grow leaner and costlier by early winter. Cattlemen are avoiding oppressive feed prices by letting their steers fatten on grass, a process that takes about 90 days longer than grain feeding...
Spreading Flame. With that addition, the cycle of the stratified-charge engine remains quite similar to the sequence in ordinary internal combustion engines: 1) As the piston descends, a rich fuel mix from one carburetor is injected into the small combustion chamber near the spark plug. A leaner mixture, from a second carburetor, is squirted into the rest of the cylinder. 2) Moving up, the piston compresses both charges, pushing back most of the richer mix that may have seeped into the main chamber. 3) The spark plug fires the rich mix. 4) The rich, burning mix ignites the adjoining...
Between 1968 and 1971, Harvard sailing squads won more events than any other New England team, coach Mike Horn '63 said yesterday. Although Horn said things have been somewhat leaner for the men's varsity in the past two years, he is optimistic about his team's chances in this weekend's Ivy League Championships at Yale...
...expensive. Reform, using money more effectively, will be the mark of this Administration." The President objected to the idea that the nation needs "some new massive government program...What we need now, rather than more government is better government. Many times the better is not the fatter, but the leaner. What I am standing for is government finding ways...to give people incentive to do more for themselves on their own without government assistance...
...domestic matters, Nixon's leadership has combined a shrewd understanding of what most of the country wanted-or feared-with constant reminders of the old verities and only occasional flashes of innovation-so far. Even in his reform proposals, Nixon sometimes comes across only as a leaner, meaner liberal. The shortcoming is not his alone. American conservatism has long been inconstant, uncertain and divided in its aims, trying to combine belief in authority with a belief in individualism and little government. A rich tradition of conservative thought on the European model has never taken root in America; perhaps Americans...