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...chorus of mournful noise is issuing from the cattle-feeding pens of Colorado, Texas and the Middle West-and not just from the steers awaiting slaughter. The feed-lot operators are moaning too, because a consumer rebellion against beef and soaring costs of fattening cattle threaten to trim their profits to the bone. Says an official of the Colorado Cattlemen's Association: "A lot of boys are going to belly...
...personal, sometimes dour vision. For example, he and Screenwriter Alexander Jacobs transformed Point Blank from an ordinary gangster-revenge story into an essay in gun-metal existentialism and a portrait of Southern California absurdism that is still unrivaled. Zardoz, his sixth film, loses something of its predecessors' fighting trim. Although Boorman excels at expressing ideas through action, too many of them, and too muddled, are tossed off here and left lying about like litter...
While Nixon looked trim and vigorous, considering his long year of personal ordeal, the pancake makeup did not conceal recently acquired facial lines. He perspired more freely than ever. In a classic slip of the tongue, he read a line about the need to replace "the discredited present welfare program" as the need to replace the "dis credited President," then corrected himself...
Last year Congress ordered the Pentagon to trim 43,000 men from the military; Schlesinger intends to cut 58,000 by July. His budget for 1975 does add one new brigade to the Army but requires the 4,000-5,000 men to be drawn from existing noncombat ranks. Schlesinger also is considering more base cutbacks. Last spring then-Secretary of Defense Elliot Richardson announced that 274 military installations in the U.S. would be closed, reduced or consolidated to save $350 million a year. Schlesinger has ordered the services to recommend this spring enough other bases that could possibly...
...crisis began late in November when the Illinois board of higher education asked the university to trim its $50 million annual budget by roughly 5%, or about $2.7 million. The slash was made necessary largely by a decline in enrollments, which have dropped from 23,500 in 1970 to 19,300 this fall. Claiming that it had already cut other costs to the bone, the administration ordered department chairmen to lop heads. Less than two weeks after the order, letters went out to 64 faculty members, including 28 with tenure, and 40 administrative staffers, ending their employment as of next...