Word: warns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year. C. Jackson Grayson, chairman of the Price Commission, scheduled hearings on all food prices for next week. A growing number of economists, including at least two members of TIME'S Board of Economists-Otto Eckstein and Robert Nathan-favor placing farm prices under direct federal control. They warn that if food prices during March show anything like the February increase of 23% on an annual basis, the entire structure of Phase II may totter...
...take advantage of high prices. The price of choice beef cattle has already dropped, from a 20-year high of $36.76 per hundredweight in mid-February to $34.62 last week. Agriculture experts foresee some decline in retail beef prices-perhaps down to the level during the freeze-but warn that pork will remain in short supply and therefore expensive...
Such trivia are not redeemed by Morris' pious peroration, calling on "the human animal ... a simple tribal hunter by evolution," to indulge in a "magical return to intimacy." As any ethologist would warn Tribal Hunter Morris, man is the only animal to hunt without hunger, cropping his prey to extinction. ·Horace Judson
Dunlop to Warn Departments
...argues for quick action to end exponential growth. The article gains its authority not from computer studies but from the endorsement of 33 of the U.K.'s most distinguished scientists, including Biologist Sir Julian Huxley, Geneticist C.H. Waddington and Naturalist Peter Scott. Unrestricted industrial and population expansion, they warn, must lead to "the breakdown of society and of the life support systems on this planet-possibly by the end of this century and certainly within the lifetime of our children...