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Things are not that simple. Though about 120 million tons of feed grain is consumed annually by all livestock in the U.S., an unconsumed pound of meat does not magically send grain on its way to the hungry abroad. Someone - almost always the U.S. Government - must buy the grain and see to its delivery to needy countries. For the moment, President Ford has decided that the current...
PROFESSOR JEAN MAYER'S proposal to institute meatless days at Harvard deserves serious consideration. Eating meat is the most inefficient method of obtaining calories, since it takes about eight pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat. The world's grain reserves are at a dangerously low level, and the average American--who now consumes over twice as much beef as in 1950--is helping to deplete them even further...
...Crimson opened the meet by taking all three places in the 35-pound weight toss. Dan Jiggetts won it with a personal best of 56'4" on his last attempt. Co-captain Steve Niemi took second, while freshman Ed Ajootian finished third...
Springfield's Jay Mulligan delivered a pin to 177-pound Jim Strathmeyer early in the third period to give Springfield an insurmountable 23-14 bulge...
Senior Bart Van Dissel gave the Crimson some hope by eking out a 3-2 decision over 190-pound Bill Fiore of Springfield to pull the Crimson to within six points...