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...rising as economically interested groups argue the pros and cons of the new Soviet grain deals. Last week an ad hoc committee of the AFL-CIO maritime unions, which are threatening to boycott the Soviet shipment, met with Butz to protest the sales. "This sounds like the 1972 rip-off all over again, and we won't stand for it," said the Longshoremen's Thomas Gleason, referring to the Soviet purchase of 19 million tons of U.S. grain three summers ago. "Nobody is going to be ripped off," Butz assured the seamen. Said Don Woodward, president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Food Prices: Why They're Going Up Again | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

...THINK about if you realize that there is probably nothing that completely explains out losing Faith. It seems to be a multi-faceted rip-off. Personally I lost a lot of Faith when the U.S. Department of Justice lost all of its conspiracy trials against those radicals who were threatening the National Security. I thought they would win at least one trial out of twenty. But I guess that's the breaks of the game...

Author: By James Lemoyne, | Title: Faith Up to Reality | 8/15/1975 | See Source »

...Taiwan Rip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, May 19, 1975 | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

...playing tonight through Saturday at The Club, a warehouse-like place on Main St. in Cambridge with better acoustics than Mather House last weekend but where you should leave your coat outside in the bushes because they force you to check your cost among other annoying little rip-off like the absence of draft been made a mistake last week when some roof at WHRB told me that the long rock orgy announced last week was last week but it's not it's this week beginning with The Agony and the Ecstasy," with acts that just-missed...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Rock | 5/15/1975 | See Source »

...Four Musketeers. The first part of this was fun, but this extension is a serious rip-off. Richard Lester knows his craft as a director; certainly this is a beautiful movie visually and it is fast. But too fast and skimpy. They filmed the whole of this to be released as one picture, but somebody decided they could milk us for two. Sneak in the back and have a nice time, but the self-respecting ought not give those bastards the satisfaction of paying $2.50 for excess footage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

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