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...shrunk out of existence from $40 million to $10 million. Despite Congress' fractious mood, however, Johnson did get a number of other bills past Capitol Hill's axmen, most notably: expanded air-pollution control, a consular treaty with Moscow, an outer-space treaty, the first meat-inspection program since Upton Sinclair's exposes inspired a similar bill in 1906, and a major increase in social security benefits...
...Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle, a scathing exposé of the filthy conditions existing in the nation's meat-packing plants, led to passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act. Still in force, the act requires the Department of Agriculture to inspect every red-meat animal whose carcass moves in interstate commerce -both before and after slaughter. Trouble is, 15% of the slaughtered animals and 25% of the processed meat do not cross state lines and thus escape federal regulation. Policing of this meat is left to the states, but only 29 have mandatory meat-inspection laws...
RICHARD OWEN UPTON Fort Worth...
...claims that the institute is making his condition worse is answered with evasive jargon from a Kafkaesque staff. The 85-minute film offers no comment and no solution, but in its relentless expose of a present-day snake pit, it deserves to stand with works like Upton Sinclair's The Jungle as an accusation and a plea for reform...
...team of accreditors from the North Central Association visited Beloit, admiringly reported that it is accomplishing something "for which many in higher education speak and write, but which few achieve-a vigorous intellectual community and a resolution of the ever-present tension between teaching and research." At Beloit, where Upton's new system permits professors to refresh themselves periodically off campus, teaching obviously comes first...