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...Someone should tell Senator "Share the Wealth and Emasculate the Commonwealth" McGovern that we no longer live in Sherwood Forest...
...letters between Dean of Students Archie Epps and SDS Vice President Katherine Moos (distributed by the University to all dormitory rooms last month) concerning SDS's recent National Convention Against Racism. Ever the romantic, Freidel says of Lash's book. "Nothing so fresh and intimate has appeared since Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins'": we can similarly compliment the editors of this collection that no letters published out of University Hall have displayed such rich nuance revealing so much about a complex and historically significant relationship since Franklin Ford's "Dear Nate" appeared in The Old Mole three years...
...that, not many of the middlemen are getting rich. Big packing companies, which traditionally operate on thin profit margins of 21 to 3% on sales, are hurt by the low supply of cattle. Says Sherwood O. Berg, dean of the University of Minnesota's Agriculture Institute: "Right now meat packers are operating under capacity. They are chasing animals to keep their manned production lines going." Nor are supermarkets in very good shape. At Chicago's Jewel Food Stores, the profit margin has slipped slightly since Phase II began. The huge A. & P. chain lost money last year...
More than a dozen hardware companies (notably Sherwood, Kenwood and Sony) have already signed on to manufacture equipment for the Columbia SQ system. Panasonic has chosen RCA. Everyone else is taking a long, hard look. Or listen. As for the poor, beleaguered consumer, he may think twice before inviting two more after-dinner speakers into his home...
Alas, today's press background in general tends more towards gargle than vitriol. Peter Bogdanovich, film buff extraordinaire and doubtless nice guy, fashions a Sherwood Anderson-cum-Texas dialect-cum-hokum pastiche, The Last Picture Show, and gets praised by Life for bringing life back to movies. Stanley Kubrick--more impressive pictorially, bearded and brooding--reeks of intellect for as stodgy a publication as Saturday Review...