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...most visible trouble is being caused by beef prices. Climbing steadily for months, they leaped during April by 6.6%, recalling the spiral that led to a housewives' boycott of meat products five years ago. Beef is rising because cattlemen are not sending their animals to slaughter. During 1975, 1976 and 1977, slumping meat prices encouraged ranchers to cut the size of their herds, lest they become stuck with steers that could only be sold at a loss come market time. By this year, the nation's cattle stock had dropped to a seven-year low of 116 million head...
...French base camp is a hastily built row of canvas shops where the entrepreneurial Lebanese sell everything from cigarettes to transistor radios. A tailor sitting at his sewing machine says he is doing "terrific business" cutting and making tailored summer uniforms. One of the bestselling items is a spiral punk made in China and thought by the paras to be the best defense against the horde of mosquitoes. "C'est la vie," says a French trooper of the punk's nauseating aroma. "Better the smell than the bites...
...toothbrush anywhere. I remember that evening how impressed I was with Mrs. Johnson. She and my sister and I were sitting in one part of the room, and Jack and Johnson and some men were in the other part of the room. Mrs. Johnson had a little spiral pad, and when she'd hear a name mentioned she'd jot it down ... Or sometimes if Mr. Johnson wanted her, he'd say, 'Bird, do you know so-and-so's number?' and she'd always have it down. Yet she would sit talking...
...life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. It is also one of the most difficult, because the amusement always has to be newer and on a higher level. So we are on a kind of spiral The higher you go, the narrower the circle. As you go ahead the field of choice becomes more meager, in terms of self-entertainment. In the end, working is good because it is the last refuge of the man who wants to be amused. Not everything that amused...
COAL. Administration officials are concerned that any coal settlement will worsen the wage spiral. Says Brill: "There are contracts for 740,000 construction workers coming up between March and June. I just hope they don't read the papers, because a lot of their wives are going to be around reminding them of that 38.8% [prospective coal wage-and-benefit increase] over three years." In addition companies will also bid up the price of nonunion coal, switch to higher-priced fuels or make up for lost work by scheduling costly overtime when the strike ends. Those moves could boost...