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Berlin & Broilers. The Common Market is making every effort to shoo away the U.S. chickens. A new rule effective last July fixes minimum prices on poultry entering the market, and each of the six member nations is also permitted to tack on a tax pegged to domestic poultry production costs. The minimum price set for U.S. broilers is 33.3? a lb., and the West German supplemental tax adds another 9.7?. To make matters worse, the Common Market this month imposed an arbitrary surcharge of 2.8? on broilers. All this boosts delivery prices of U.S. chickens by as much...
...think of any that I would go to." The Masters say that they want the impetus for activities to come from the students. They too want to avoid scheduling excessive events. Master Thimann contends that "a balance of activities must be sought. I want a minimum of activities limited by students' spare time...
...murmurs), and toiled at a first novel about the 1925 revolution in China. The book, called The Sand Pebbles, has just become the $10,000 Harper Prize novel of 1962, is a Book-of-the-Month choice for January, and has been bought by Hollywood for a minimum...
Markevitch's minimum requirements for practicing his craft: thorough knowledge of musical history, fluency in at least three languages, mastery of all the classical symphonies, plus six operas, ten oratorios, and accompaniment for all the major concertos. "If you don't know the works by heart," says Markevitch, "you don't know them." As for himself, Markevitch added casually, he knew 300 compositions by heart several years ago, but "it's far more than that...
...always, many House races will be decided because of fresh new personalities and faces. In normally Republican North Dakota, Incumbent Hjalmar Nygaard, 56, should win but has to contend with the whirlwind drive of handsome Democrat Scott Anderson, who is only 25-minimum age for a Congressman. A political whiz kid, Anderson was elected to the legislature at 21, managed the successful campaigns of Senator Quentin Burdick and Governor William...