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Holly Holmes, a secretary, said she and others are afraid that the man, who was released when von Thuna elected not to press charges, might return to carry out the threats he made, which included "blowing the brains" out of the employees who had helped restrain...
...Unless there is a break in the malicious weather this week, the corn crops could be devastated; soybean plantings will begin to burn up within weeks. Even if the rains come soon, this fall's harvest is now all but certain to drop well below amounts needed to restrain inflationary food prices. Says Jim Tippett, an official of the Illinois Farm Bureau: "We need hot, sticky weather now, with plenty of rain, the kind of weather that makes people suffer." Last week some rain fell in the Midwest, but officials said it was not enough to end the drought...
...biggest increases that their raw economic power would temporarily command. Indeed, many economists fear that high wage demands are about to replace shortages as the prime inflationary force in the economy-and the Government cannot persuade labor leaders to moderate them unless it makes a conscientious effort to restrain business too. The President, as wielder of the nation's largest jawbone, should define what wage and price behavior is responsible and focus public opinion pressure against increases that violate the guidelines. In order to assure that he is listened to, he needs the authority to order occasional rollbacks...
...farm-belt complaints that prices previously had dropped so low as to threaten bankruptcies among some animal raisers and feedlot operators, the Government is buying up $100 million of "excess" beef and pork for use in its school-lunch program, and has asked Australia and New Zealand to "voluntarily" restrain meat exports...
...commanders gave a report on how "our" fleet had met and routed "the enemy" in the map exercises. He started rattling off how "our" fleet was sinking "enemy" ships right and left. He was terribly cocky. It made me sad to listen to him. Finally, I couldn't restrain myself any longer. I interrupted him and said: "Stop! Wait! You keep talking with such certainty about how you've made short work of the enemy, and now you're telling me there's nothing left to do but polish off the enemy. Have you really assessed...