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...Seeking a nonsubsidy way to ease the economic troubles of the U.S. livestock industry (TIME, Feb. 28), Hruska wanted to limit imports of foreign beef and veal to 540 million lbs. annually, instead of the 920 million lbs. called for in recent agreements between the U.S. and Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. While Hruska's amendment appealed to some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, South Dakota Democrat George McGovern noted that it "would cut the ground from under U.S. representatives" at forthcoming international tariff and trade talks, and the Administration was alarmed at its international consequences. Secretary...
...time. Last week the Chicago price of prime beef on the hoof fell to 22? per lb., the lowest since 1946, and cattlemen discarded their usual suspicion of Government programs long enough to cry for federal aid. Washington responded quickly. The State Department signed agreements with Australia and New Zealand to limit their exports of meat...
...Imports of Australian beef have doubled in the past two years, and U.S. prices dropped 25% in 1963. More than 10% of the 97 Ibs. of beef eaten by the average American last year was imported, and most of it came from the sprawling ranges of Australia and New Zealand, which produce a chewy but inexpensive grade of meat. The new trade agreements will hold this year's imports to the 1962-63 level and permit small increases later-but this did not satisfy U.S. cattlemen. In Omaha, the National Livestock Feeders Association announced that it was "disturbed, disgusted...
...There was James, Margaret, a nun in New Zealand, Stanislaus, who died in 1955, Charles, who died five days after James, George, who died at 14, Eileen, who died last year, myself, Eva, who died in 1957, I think, Florence, who is still living, and Mabel, the youngest, who died at 17. James loved her." The James who so dominates the fam ily is James Joyce, and his sister, May Joyce Monaghan, 74, was talking about him during a visit to New York on the 82nd anniversary of his birth. "Jim, as we used to call him, was very gentle...
Explanatory theories have never been wholly convincing, but scientists keep trying. Now, in the magazine Na ture, Dr. Alexander T. Wilson of New Zealand's Victoria University of Wellington offers an intriguing solution. His reasoning points to Antarctica...