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...Hunger became a problem in Seattle almost two years ago, when the city's economy began to falter because of the layoff of 63,000 workers at Boeing, Seattle's largest employer. An ailing forest-products industry added to the problem, and the result was an unemployment rate of about 12% at the start of 1972. Of the 1,400,000 people living in the three-county area in and around Seattle, 72,500 were out of work...
...donations of food for Neighbors at one of its games. The Seattle SuperSonics professional basketball team drew 900 paying customers -at $1 a head-to a practice session. The proceeds, and food donated by another 600 fans in lieu of cash admissions, went to the Neighbors' hunger program. Help also came from Kobe, Japan, Seattle's "sister city," which had received shipments of food and supplies from Seattle residents after World War II. Last week Actress Katharine Cornell sent a $500 check...
...Phillipp Schorsch (Jan. 5) is feeling "a bit dizzy" after only four days of his hunger strike, it would seem that his horizontal exercises haven't been enough to get him into good physical shape. The experts at the hunger strike game--such as some Indian ascetics--have been known to last sixty to seventy days without food...
David hires four locals to roof a cottage on his farm and rid it of rats. They think he's strange (a justified opinion), and grow to hate him. And they try to get back at him by flirting with his wife; two of them hunger for Army on her own, considerable, merits. The Sumners' pastorale closes with a squelch when a cat is hung in their closet, which Amy sees as a test of David: "They want to show you they can get into your bedroom...
Schorsch said that he will hand out a leaflet today at the Business School explaining the hunger strike. In the leaflet, he maintains that his primary purpose for the fast is not to be reinstated in the Doctoral Program, but rather to question the way "people normally acquiesce to injustice...