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...Actually, he is doing better than figures of the past few years indicate. Since 1939, farmers' incomes have risen more sharply than nonfarmers' (276% against 189%). The purchasing power of individual farmers has also been disproportionately higher; it is up 70% since 1939, compared with a 50% hike for non-farmers. Moreover, the trend from farm to city cut the number of farmers by 3.5% last year. Thus, per capita farm income last year rose slightly (from $914 in '53 to $918). At the same time per capita nonfarm income fell 3%, so that the farmer...
...true that soon after Utamaro Ukiyo-e art sharply declined. Hiroshige (1797-1858) was the last Ukiyo-e master. An Edo fireman, Hiroshige quit fire fighting at 27 to hike up and down Japan sketching. He turned his sketches into a flood of prints showing the nation's famed views, stopping places, bridges, rivers and fairs in all kinds of weather. Bales of Hiroshige's prints found their way to Europe, did as much as anything to spark modern painting. Manet, Degas, Lautrec and Van Gogh all learned from Ukiyo-e art. But after Hiroshige's death...
...compulsory national health insurance went into effect in Sweden, replacing voluntary plans which (with state aid) had covered 65% of the population. To extend coverage to all citizens, the state will now triple its payments, to $150 million a year, and will raise the money by an unpopular hike in liquor taxes. Unlike the British system, which foots the entire doctor's bill, Sweden's plan will pay only 75% and calls for direct contributions by individuals (a man earning $2,000 will pay $36 to insure his family). Costly drugs will be free and many prescriptions will...
...inter-city hike to the Business School parking lot is certainly not a "reasonable distance." Any number of undergraduates have preferred to risk an occasional parking ticket. For these law-dodgers, DeGuglielmo notes, passages of the ruling will mean the end of "violating the criminal laws of the city of Cambridge." It will also mean a saving in money and shoe leather for those who must trudge to the Business School...
...professional Africa hand, but a good observing traveler, is Esther Warner. Her SEVEN DAYS To LOMALAND (269 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.50) is the story of a seven-day hike she made across Liberia to witness the native trial-by-ordeal of a houseboy accused of thievery. Her account is charming and clear-eyed...