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...operators see no quick way out of their bind. "We need 50? a lb. to break even," says Bill Webster, president of the Colorado Cattle Feeders Association, "but at just that level the consumer seems to stiffen. We can't sell there." In similar circumstances executives in other businesses might elect to keep then" products off the market until prices rose. But the feeders cannot readily do that: the critters go on gobbling expensive corn, put on still more pounds-and packers pay less per pound for overweight steers than they do for pleasingly plump ones, because the additional...
...after a series of stunning victories, the civil libertarians are no longer winning. They certainly have pushed the censors into the corner, so that now the issue squarely revolves around what the vast majority of the public (civil libertarians included) would label "pornography," according to Webster's. Out of court, no longer are we asking "is it pornography?" but "why not pornography?" The courtroom is another story, however, since legal precedent supports the censorship of pornography in principle (Roth v. U.S., 1957). In the past, in court, the battle assumed absurdist dimensions: was Deep Throat "educational" in nature...
...Education Professor Staten Webster of the University of California at Berkeley sympathizes with the New York City decision. "A kid might feel bad when he doesn't get promoted," he says. "But that is better than finding that his life is ruined because he can't do anything." Furthermore, he adds, "You can't promote him simply on the theory that he is too old to keep back. To slap him into a junior high school compounds his chances of failure...
...equal educational opportunities for the mid-Cambridge schools (Morse, King, Webster, Fletcher, Longfellow, and Roberts...
...says that Cambridgeport (his area) has not received the educational facilities which exist in the rest of the city. The only candidate with a child in the Alternative Public School, he says he favors increasing the number of education options available to students. Dudley has strong backing in the Webster School area, where he is president...