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...week: "Two Swiss steaks opened a bank account in Zurich." Housewives have taken to following meatless recipes. If their husbands remain meat chauvinists and insist on steak, they are served smaller portions-and sometimes they get something else when they think that they are eating beef. A housewife in Portland, Ore., revealed in a newspaper interview that she had been feeding her husband horsemeat for three years. Had he known it was horse? He had not, but having tried it, he liked it. Reading of this, people raced to the J & H Horsemeat Market, where they stood in line...
...sure, the term "crisis" has been bandied about all too broadly in discussing urban ills. Some cities, including San Francisco, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Denver and Portland, have not really been in a crisis. But of those that were-mostly in the Northeast and Midwest - few if any are really any more livable now than when Nixon assumed office. The President could justly claim that the cities at least have not fallen apart and that there are significant improvements here and there, with a true test still ahead as the effects of Nixon's budget and revenue sharing work themselves...
...prevent environmental damage. The measure has already stirred heated controversy throughout the state, but it has drawn little attention elsewhere, although one section of the bill may have effects far beyond the shores of Maine. It bans the establishment of deepwater oil ports anywhere in the state except Portland, where the existing port is already operating at capacity...
President had refused to appoint Czar Reed's candidate for collector of customs in Portland, Maine...
...Christmas vacation ends; midyear exams are either just beginning or just completed; the basketball season heats up-and corporate recruiters descend on campus to start their annual quest for talent. In recent years the job market dwindled. Now, though there may be snow on the quad from Princeton to Portland State, the winter of student discontent is waning...