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...outraged Butchers' Guild of North Rhine-Westphalia in West Germany last week rallied under the slogan, "What's all this about the Neckermann pig?" Josef Neckermann, 54, the country's mail-order wizard, once again upset retailers, this time by offering through the mail half a pig for deepfreezing at half the price the pork would normally cost in the neighborhood butcher shop...
...share. He fudged on NIBMAR; but to prove that his heart was in the right place, he delivered an ultimatum of sorts to Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. Unless Smith agreed to form an "acceptable" government by Christmas, Wilson would ask the U.N. to impose mandatory sanctions on Rhodesian pig iron, chrome and asbestos...
...Pig iron, chrome and asbestos? The Commonwealth was not impressed. Nor were the members pacified when Wilson upped the ante to include a mandatory oil blockade; after all, one mandatory oil blockade was supposedly already in force, but Rhodesia had somehow always managed to get plenty of oil. In the end, there was not much the Commonwealth could do about it. Before they went home, however, the leaders of 16 former British possessions in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean broke ranks with Wilson, made use of the official conference communique-traditionally a bland document saying nothing-to register their disagreement...
Sometimes the Updike stories echo not only themselves but other voices by other specialists. The Family Meadow, for example, could be an unconscious transcription of John Cheever's The Day the Pig Fell into the Well; it is a memorable elegy to a family at its high point of felicity, caught at the moment before its dissolution. Yet the story is Updike's own; it is clearly his identifiably New Jersey-Pennsylvania family he is writing about, and the note he sounds is ironic; so far, he has left others to blow the tragic basses...
...tragedy by George Buchner. Although many of the lines and the occurrences in its twenty-nine scenes are ambiguous and open to varied interpretation, it's pretty clear that Buchner was a social critic who didn't like what society was doing to mankind. Woyzeck himself is the guinea pig used by the characters Buchner hated: most specifically, the army represented by a vicous and stupid Captain, and misguided science, represented by a hack doctor. Because of economic pressure, Woyzeck must allow himself to be exploited in order to live. His sanity rests on his faith in Marie, the mother...