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...presently no world surplus of beef anyhow, lifting restrictions would probably bring in no more than 250 million Ibs. of beef on top of the 1.3 billion Ibs. that the nation already imports from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and ten other countries. That would trim perhaps only a nickel a pound off the price of beef by year's end. Even so, Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland is fearful that an abrupt lifting of controls could have a disastrous psychological impact on ranchers, who would see prices begin to level off and would stop expanding their herds...
...Cuddy, "coursing" (dog racing) and wagering on greyhounds have been a genteel tradition he has followed since age ten, when he bet a nickel on dogs with his schoolmates. Bookmaking is legal in Ireland, and gambling has fewer of the immoral overtones that it does in this country. When asked if he thought corruption existed in American dog racing, Cuddy replied, "There are crooked people in every profession. It's wrong to categorize dog racing as being any more dishonest than another. People who say that are full of codswallop...
Aluminum, one of the lightest and most malleable of metals, traditionally has been a cyclical business. But today its producers, almost alone among metal manufacturers, are exulting over prosperous stability. Makers of steel, zinc, nickel and copper are ailing because of surging costs and rising cheap imports, but the aluminum industry cannot keep up with demand...
...role as big as Brother Joey's, balked at taking second billing and toddled out of the show. He consoled himself with such pursuits as organizing backyard carnivals and starting a bowling alley in the basement with croquet balls and milk bottles (20¢ per game, soda pop a nickel extra). He did extravagant, free-form tap dances in front of the TV, imitating Cagney ("I loved him. He was so loving and sensitive") in Yankee Doodle Dandy...
What little action there is concerns Donny's attempt, masterminded by Teach, to steal a valuable buffalo-head nickel he sold to a customer several days before, unaware of the coin's worth. Teach plans the crime, infecting Donny with his enthusiasm and such telling logic as "You make your own right and wrong...so you know what I'm talking about here, huh?" Finally, Teach and Donny plan the caper, and Bobby is replaced by an absent friend named Fletch, at Teach's insistence...