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Pride is giving way to hunger for many this year in Milbridge; the welfare rolls are steadily climbing, and long lines form for free food. The demand for Brooks' logs fell, his wife became ill and the bills simply could not be paid. Brooks and his wife decided that they had to seek help, and he went to the welfare office. "We got some papers in the mail," he recalls, "and it bothered me so bad I got my wife to fill 'em out." He still hopes a thaw, in both the frozen woods and the demand...
...Senate, parts of the Nixon program could easily get lost, distorted or delayed as ambitious Democrats eye 1972. Maine's Muskie will want to keep his brand on the environmental controls he has long championed. South Dakota's George McGovern will push the war on hunger. Ted Kennedy will be seeking national health insurance. Iowa's Harold Hughes has some ideas about combatting drugs and alcoholism. Oklahoma's Fred Harris wants to shape family assistance his own way. Indiana's Birch Bayh will continue to guard the pass on Nixon appointments...
...ROBERT DRINAN, 50, Democrat, Mass., has the good humor to dub himself the "Mad Monk," but is zealously serious about peace and world hunger. Says he: "I can't live at peace with myself knowing that we have 6% of the world's population and consume 60% of the world's resources." He hopes for a seat on the Judiciary Committee to put his experience as a law school dean to good...
...appointed a young black to a top position on his staff. West had been a winner over Republican Albert Watson, whose campaign bluntly played on fears of busing and defiance of court orders and had the benefit of personal campaigning by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. Housing, education and hunger, West said, were the problems that would occupy his administration, not the old bitterness of race...
Villot does not counsel simple obstructionism, however. National episcopates should know the "demographic situation in their countries." Papal representatives should offer "positive and morally acceptable proposals." So far, the proposals are limited to combatting poverty and hunger, cooperating in "prudent sexual education" and popularizing the rhythm method of birth control...