Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purge of the Italian government a la Watergate would leave the country without a single official or institution. Except for the very rich, no one can continue to ignore an inflation rate of 30 per cent, prices that prevent some 10 per cent of the population from eating meat, or an unemployment rate that does not allow eight per cent of the labor force to earn a living. The ordinary citizen seems to have two alternatives: satirical laughter, or despair...
...government only as they stop being agents of reform, as they make backstairs compromises and become corrupt--in short, as they become part of the bourgeois machine they might once have envisioned changing. The communist leader of the metal workers union, Harvard educated Bruno Trentin, proposes rationing meat as a partial solution to the economic crisis--not a reform that would really hit the rich, who can and will get meat anyway. Giorgio Napolitano, vice-secretary of the PCI said recently: "We have changed our policy on NATO." (Previously the PCI slogan was "Italy out of NATO and NATO...
...thing which will undoubtedly suffer from neglect in Moshell's absence is the concerto--a musical genre which demands both quantity and quality of players. Moshell has scheduled a concert of all-meat and no-down concerti for his swan song. Offering several Brahms lieder as an hors d'oeuvre, Moshell at the piano will accompany soprano Tamara Mitchel '78 who might justifiably view these as warm-up exercises; she will then dive into Wagner's incredibly challenging Prelude and Liebestod from the opera Tristan and Isolde...
Last week the participants peered down the long, tough road in labor-contract negotiations. Willie Usery, Secretary of Labor, who had just mediated the Teamster settlement, puffed on his big white meerschaum pipe and ticked some of them off: rubber workers, electrical-appliance workers, meat packers, construction workers. It would be a delicate and difficult time in some ways, he warned, but not impossible to weather safely if free bargaining were given every encouragement...
Market-shelf prices actually fell from January to February; the decline was only 1.5%, but it was the biggest monthly slide in the grocery component of the consumer price index since the early 1950s. The sharpest drop occurred in the area where housewives had been hit hardest: the meat case. Beef prices plunged 6% as cattlemen, reacting to dwindling demand, trimmed the sizes of their herds and pumped beef onto the market. Beef prices may well rebound in coming weeks as supplies begin to tighten again: when store prices begin to edge up, hamburger will probably rise relatively more than...