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...worst-affected areas, gruel kitchens have been opened that provide a watery mess of broken wheat, fragments of pumpkin and lentils," reports TIME New Delhi Correspondent James Shepherd. "Queues of sev eral hundred emaciated people at each kitchen get what is often no more than a quarter-pound of the gruel, and sometimes that is shared among six people. In one village, a shame faced elder confessed that Hindus were violating the ban on eating cows and were consuming dead cattle and buffaloes. 'What else can we do?' he implored pathetically...
...Ives broke the rules all right, but only after having mastered them as a Yale music student. "I found I could not go on using the familiar chords only," he once said. "I heard something else." In his plural textures and unconventional progressions, he was creative kin to Pound. In his bald and unashamed quoting of pop tunes, he can be said to have prophesied pop art. In the incredible tensions he built up by playing one key or rhythm against another, or in the way he could move dreamily from tender simplicity to the densest of instrumental textures...
...have personally seen six-year-old kids picking beans for five cents a pound in the Willamette Valley in Oregon in 1971. It was 11 a.m. and these kids had already worked for four hours. It undoubtedly teaches them, in the growers' words, a "sense of responsibility...
...balance of payments deficit. American banks recently announced, jointly, that they felt they were fully "loaned out" to Britain, France and Italy. Other international monetary powers may be willing to take up some of the slack for a short while, but a real financing of Britain's 6 billion pound annual deficit could only come from the Arabs, and those ultra-security-conscious investors are hardly likely to invest very heavily in a country whose economic future must seem so unsettling to the capitalist...
...milk-the spot on his lung X ray was a calcium deposit. When 31% of the rats exposed to one type of asbestos dust in a medical experiment developed lung cancer, an industry researcher argued that it must have been caused by metal tracings from the hammer used to pound the material into dust. "Nobody ever said to me that the stuff could hurt you," Hubert Thomas, who had worked at the Tyler plant and now cannot walk a block without stopping to catch his breath, told Brodeur. But then he recalled one warning from J.W. McMillan, another plant manager...