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Prohibition came to Kuwait as deviously as an Arab horse trade. In theory only Christian residents of the predominantly Moslem nation could drink, using ration cards to obtain whisky through London's Gray Mackenzie & Co. Ltd., which has had an import monopoly on Kuwait's liquor flow for decades. In fact, Moslems imbibed increasingly, and drunken-driving fatalities mounted apace. The nation's stricter religious leaders then teamed up with local merchants who resented Gray Mackenzie's lucrative monopoly to introduce a prohibition bill in the Kuwaiti Assembly. With voting a matter of public record...
Died. Lord Woolton, 81, Churchill's food minister from 1940 to 1943, known to his friends as "the greatest quartermaster since Moses" and to the rest of Britain as the man who introduced ration points and the meatless "Woolton Pie" (potatoes, vegetables, oatmeal and gravy), who became Tory Party chairman in 1946 and helped engineer the party's return to power by easing out oldtimers and rebuilding the treasury; of a heart attack; in Sussex, England...
Food & Trade. There are more vegetables, pork and eggs. In many areas pork is off the ration, though its price makes it a luxury. Despite the ridicule he heaped on Khrushchev's incentive measures, Mao permits hog farmers, after delivering their fixed quotas to collectives, to sell the balance on a free market. Dogs and cats, slaughtered wholesale for food during the Leap, are again appearing with impunity in Peking and Shanghai, and even birds-once relentlessly exterminated as predators-have returned to Canton...
...Grey Spectrum. The leaders of the new Cuba have proved after 51 years in power that they can control Cuba. No one has yet proved that they can run it. Rationing and shortages have worsened to the point where an automobile tire now goes for $130 on the black market, the weekly coffee ration is down to 1½ oz. per person, and the monthly butter ration is ⅛ lb. per person. At Havana's Tropicana nightclub, the chorus is still leggy and kicking, but the food is bad and few Cubans can even afford the tips. A Coca...
...this points toward an ideal envisioned by the late Learned Hand, the greatest U.S. judge who never sat on he Supreme Court. "If we are to keep our democracy," he said, "there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice." Knowledgeable lawyers would add that such rationing has a dangerous practical effect: the victims grow increasingly disrespectful of the police and the courts. But the new drive for equal justice also saddles the nation's 200,000 private-practice lawyers with the duty of fully defending more than 150,000 indigents a year...