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...prices, however, are only a partial explanation for the great shift in eating habits that turned Americans from pork to beef eating (13.6 lbs. of beef for every eleven of pork). Another reason is the increasing efficiency of cattlemen at breeding and feeding, which has not only turned out beefier animals (in 100 years the average weight of a yearling has been doubled) but also tastier meat with more sirloin, chops and roasts and fewer poor cuts. What the U.S. wants in beef, the U.S. gets, thanks to the great progress in developing new and better breeds of cattle...
...committee withheld many of its findings (which will become court evidence), and made only partial reports in most cases. But taken together, the reports told a murky story of top-to-bottom official corruption that got its cue from Perón and extended down to such lowly posts as zoo keepers (one of whom appropriated the zoo's imported canaries for his private collection). Some tidbits: ¶ Perón did his mother-in-law out of half of her bequest from the late Eva Perón, then with a medieval flourish had Evita's brother...
...plan for varying the heights of surrounding buildings, among them a 23-story office building farther down Ludgate Hill, while keeping the distant view of the dome unobstructed; 4) redesign of the close-in area into a series of interconnecting courts (including a 240-car underground garage) to give partial views of the cathedral; 5) moving London's Temple Bar, symbol of the City's independence, where, ceremonially, even the monarch must pause for permission to pass, to a site between St. Paul's north transept and the forecourt...
...last week the new party line had at least partial approval from the greatest Soviet realist of them all, Stalin's favorite portrait painter and president of the Soviet Academy of Art, Alexander M. Gerasimov, 74, whose heroic, mural-sized painting of Stalin and Marshal Voroshilov on the Kremlin ramparts recently disappeared from the Tretyakov State Art Museum. In a signed three-column article in Sovyetskaya Kultura, Gerasimov publicly confessed some errors of the bad old days: "The cult of the individual has done considerable harm . . . Recollecting certain of my works of the past years I must admit that...
...Switzerland of Asia") to permit Japanese rearming, with safeguards against return of the old military clique. ¶ An upgrading of the Emperor from the purely honorary position ("symbol of the state") he now holds to a position somewhere below the divinity ("sacred and inviolable") he once enjoyed. ¶ A partial return to appointment rather than election of village chiefs and members of the Upper House...