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Such assistance is urgently needed at the present time, for Bangladesh's most pressing problem is the threat of hunger. The population of the capital has been swollen by thousands of famished, unemployed refugees from rural areas. As Toni Hagen, director of the U.N. relief operation in Dacca, puts it, the situation is "desperate." "Blankets won't do, baby food won't do, midwifery kits won't do," says Hagen. "Cash is required for employment and reconstruction-plain cash." Food is urgently needed, of course, especially in the next two months, before the arrival...
...private ambulance services (William Jones of the Chicago Tribune) have earned Pulitzer Prizes. On a broader level, probing writers have shed light on what have become national issues. For example, Social Critic Michael Harrington and Reporter Robert Sherrill, in the 1960s, drew attention to the continued existence of widespread hunger and even starvation in the U.S., popular myth to the contrary. New Left publications like Ramparts wage a kind of holy war on authority generally, though they are often inaccurate. Skeptics like Jack Newfield and David Halberstam have savaged public policies and the reputations of those who make them...
...Odets has grown in stature, but only that people tend to remain, somewhat endearingly, the same. Jason Robards is the alcoholic ex-matinee idol trying to make a comeback, Maureen Stapleton is the wife to whom he clings, and George Grizzard is the young director with a shark-toothed hunger for fame...
Many of the native contests held at Whitehorse evolved from the self-torture games devised by the Eskimos long ago. Explains Roger Kunayak, another University of Alaska student: "The traditional Eskimo life included lots of pain-hunger, cold, frozen ears. So indoors we would torture ourselves to get used to the pain." To drive home his point, Kunayak swept the field in his own fearful event, the knuckle hop, by hopping 40 ft. on his toes and knuckles. Other such tests of mettle include the finger pull (two combatants locking middle fingers and pulling until one hollers uncle...
Schorsch, who protested his dismissal this Fall from the Doctoral Program by staging a 47-day hunger strike, was refused permission in February to change his nonimmigrant status from that of a student to a visitor...