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...rile Washington any more," cautioned one radio announcer. "We need a win in Congress more than we need a win for the Lions." The Motor City has got neither. With unemployment at 20% overall, and nearly 35% for blacks, Mayor Coleman Young last month declared a "hunger emergency." City agencies estimate that as many as one-third of the city's 1.2 million residents go to bed hungry every night. The Federal Government sent 17,000 lbs. of frozen turkeys, but Young wants money more than poultry. He warned that some cities and states face bankruptcy unless Washington loosens...
...hots and a cot," would have provided welfare recipients with a place to sleep and two meals a day instead of cash grants. More than 80 food pantries where the needy can get emergency food have sprung up throughout the city. Says Barbara Notestein of Milwaukee's hunger task force: "We've never had the kind of demand for emergency food that we're experiencing now." In 1982, the only highlights were the opening of the city's snazzy $70 million glass-and-steel downtown mall, and the pennant-winning performance of the Milwaukee Brewers. Alas...
Delaney Smith felt the team nearly lost the game for a different reason. "We weren't playing with any hunger or desire for the game...
Some nutty faddist hoping to cash in on the national hunger for books that help you get thin? Well, not quite. The man with such readiness to demonstrate his exercise techniques (in addition to body rolls, he suggests two types of sit-ups), and with imminent publishing plans, is Michael Deaver, the normally discreet and least noticeable of President Reagan's top aides. He recently lost 33 lbs. (from 183 lbs. on his 5-ft. 7-in. frame). He intends to reveal the details of his White House regimen for tightening belts, even as the federal deficit grows ever...
...wife has to cut off the head of a dead, possibly rabid mare that had bitten her daughter. In Ian MacMillan's "Proud Monster-Sketches," prisoners of the Nazis bury their own dead: "Returning to the edge of the pit, staggering with exhaustion and aching with hunger, Kratko barely notices that they walk on the girl's back...