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Less grain also means less food for livestock. Soviet consumers can thus expect thinner milk and stringier beef this winter. The government has no chance of fulfilling its perennial promise to boost meat consumption, which last year was about 128 lbs. per person, one of the lowest levels in the industrialized world...
...maturity, the hefty, muscular look that horsemen associate with sprinters had taken on some of the longer, stringier look associated with stayers. The result, remarked the Morning Telegraph's Evan Shipman, is a sort of "intermediate conformation" that may some day become fixed as "the American horse," a kind versatile enough to win the big ones at both short and long distances. "The Dancer," said Bill Winfrey, "has grown from boy into...
...hand. From 20 yards he has often broken the goal's netting. Despite his Bronko Nagurski bulk, Gonsalves has the nimbleness of a Red Grange. At dribbling, volleying, jumping and tackling (snaring a ball from an opponent by clever footwork), he can match his stringier colleagues. At heading, too, Gonsalves has no peer. He butts with prodigious accuracy, has headed a mud-heavy ball smack into...
...some 30,000,000,000 bands a year). Stockings and underpants will draggle down minus garters, stocking tops, elastic waist bands. Feet will get wet: fewer galoshes, boots, rubbers. Relaxation will be harder: no more foamed rubber latex auto cushions, Pullman cushions, home and hospital mattresses. Hair will be stringier on next year's beaches: no more bathing caps (last year: 11,500,000); and no more rubber bathing suits...
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