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...normal seasonal upswing in production, are easing just about on target. Yet prices for beef, which is also in a higher production period, are reacting entirely differently. The reason, apparently, is that cattlemen are convinced that demand-fueled by rising incomes, growing confidence in the economy and the food-stamp program, among other things-will increase further, driving prices above their already record levels. They are thus keeping unusually large numbers of steers in feed lots and on farms, waiting for a yet-un-reached market peak. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz is encouraging this game by conducting a campaign against...
...plays ye shall know me," says Joseph Papp. He has never written a play but he has given life to many, and as an innovative impresario he exerts enormous influence. Each of the works produced in the Downtown Manhattan beehive called the Public Theater bears the Papp stamp. "That's my job," he says. "Oh, yes, that's my job! I'm very good at saving plays, you know." Some would add, at saving the American stage. He himself observes with characteristic modesty: "I am the most important producer on Broadway, off-Broadway...
...only problem was that during the week that Freidman spent on Okinawa, that island reverted from U.S. occupation to Japanese possession. Thus it was a domestic flight on which he returned to Tokyo. Since he was merely traveling from one Japanese island to another, no customs man would stamp his passport, and since his passport was not marked, no one would issue him a new alien-registration card...
...radio license has long seemed a permanent possession for most broadcasters. Though the law required periodic review of a station's performance, its right to continue using the air waves was rarely questioned, and the Federal Communications Commission tended to rubber-stamp most license renewals. No more. To the dismay of the broadcasting industry, citizen groups and rival commercial interests are posing increasingly numerous and serious challenges to the near perpetual license...
...parents alarmed about the increasing number of muggings of schoolchildren on Manhattan's Upper East Side have formed a vigilante group to patrol the streets. The climate of terror suggests that, taking their lead from their neighbors in Scarsdale, the vigilantes may find that the best way to stamp out mugging is to stamp the muggers, possibly across the forehead, so that victims can tell police: "I was just mugged...