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...preparation for the slash and in anticipation of Ullyot's passing game, the Yalie Dailie has drilled all week. Publication of Yale's newspaper was suspended Wednesday to all the OCD troops time to practice formations and to get some sleep...
July, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman was jubilantly predicting that the program would slash feed-grain production by 800 million bushels, reduce surplus stocks by "several hundred million bushels.'' Freeman admitted that the program would cost about $500 million-but called it a bargain, since the reduced stockpile would ultimately save the taxpayer over $500 million in carrying costs...
Filmed in color in the Kananaskis Valley, a spectacular slash in the Canadian Rockies, the picture describes the early life and hard times of a pup of the Malemute breed (seven parts Husky, one part wolf). As the story starts, the pup lies playfully tussling with a black bear cub in the bottom of a canoe. All at once the canoe capsizes, and the two wobbly whippersnappers are flung into the river, washed over a waterfall. When at last they struggle ashore, pup and cub are alone in the great north woods, far from human help but entirely too close...
...time they broke camp at dawn next day and headed for the city, they knew why a man returns again and again to the wilderness: to become aware once more, to regain his natural animal tension; to see the cardinal slash through a sea of green leaves like a streak of new blood; to know again that water has taste as well as temperature, to drink sloppily and desperately because his mouth is dry and his tongue too big for his mouth; to eat the fat trout quickly cooked after the catching; to backpack his gear through glades and trails...
...months since South Africa stalked out of the British Commonwealth, gold-mine shares have dropped 30%; gold and foreign exchange reserves have fallen by half since Sharpeville, forcing the government to slash import licenses by two-thirds. Foreign investment is at a standstill. "Not a cent, penny, franc or pfennig is coming in from abroad," says one Johannesburg businessman. "We're in difficult straits...