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Grateful farmers, who had been in revolt against the Republicans a year earlier because of a sag in commodity prices, voted overwhelmingly for Nixon. But the victory was scarcely celebrated before prices took off. It was not all Nixon's doing. A corn blight had reduced the supply of feed for livestock. By coincidence, the complex cycles for raising cattle and hogs also reached their low points simultaneously. At this rather inopportune time, the U.S. economy started booming, and demand for meat picked up. On top of that, a bad crop in the Soviet Union caused Moscow to turn...
Nationwide, dressmakers' production last year dropped 1%, and 6,500 jobs disappeared. As sales sag, costs soar. Wholesale buyers, after the midi misfire, are anxious to avoid stocking ,up on any one style. The result is that dressmakers have to offer greater variety to attract interest-at the expense of their profit margins...
...just good fun. Compared to Oberon, Ravel's Sheherazade was romanticism run amok. The Weber was a perfect companion piece to the concert's opener, Shivaree by this year's occupant of the Norton Poetry Chair, Leonard Bernstein. Sporting a brass choir that practically made the Sanders Theater stage sag with the weight, the massed percussion and brass charged through a work that begs to be labeled distilled West Side Story. Bernstein's music is accessible without sacrificing musical integrity, a combination that eludes most contemporary composers, nearly all of whom shy away from any contact with the popular idiom...
...hope like Bach to use flying as a gateway to joy and wisdom. Only Bach could think up such a thing. But if the track record means anything, it will probably become the most sought-after place of higher learning since applications to Harvard and Yale began to sag. Whether his book raises tingles at the back of your neck or curdles your vichysoisse, it is hard not to believe that somebody up there loves Richard Bach. Maybe even the Great Gull himself...
...Freshmen women in the Yard are posting it on their walls, and most people who buy the parody like it. But Lampoon president S. Eric Rayman '73 freely admits that the thing is a fake. It is apparently a 50-year-old cab driver whose belly is beginning to sag a bit, with Kissinger's head attached to it. No doubt that is what a lot of people, including the Lampoon, would like to think Kissinger looks like...