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...Nehru urged states and municipalities to supply long-handled brooms to their sweepers, even if the tradition-bound sweepers might in some instances object. Then he went Harriet Bunker one better: besides cleaning India's streets, untouchables must also empty India's privies, carrying away the night soil uncovered in open wheelbarrows or loosely woven baskets or pans borne, coolie-fashion, on the head. Such a practice, said Nehru, is a "disgusting sight. Every sweeper should be given a proper container with...
...know that half the crimes in France are due to alcoholism?" The Assembly broke into a storm of protest. Pleaded the Duke de Montesquiou-Fezensac: "Don't banish from the nation men who, living in misery, improve their humble position with products of the soil. Our vines are our glory. Do not the leaves entwine themselves about the capitals of our cathedrals?" Deputy Hervé Nader accused Debré of "favoring the Anglomania of whisky galore, which will soon become the opium of the middle classes...
...enough and ruthless enough to wield it. At Elisabethville, capital of the secessionist province of Katanga, the plane was denied permission to land. A spokesman for the Katanga leader, Moise Tshombe, said that President Kasavubu was welcome, but "we refuse to let that other character set foot on Katangese soil." When the two harassed leaders took off from Luluabourg and headed for Stanleyville, they never made it: a Belgian crew member overheard Lumumba say he wanted to break off diplomatic relations with Belgium, and the Belgian pilot turned the plane toward Leopoldville, where Ndjili Airport was in the hands...
...drumfire of abuse. In his shabby capital of Teheran, a small portion of the population lives in splendor while the rest exist in the squalor of centuries, washing themselves in the open gutter jubes which double as sewers and water mains. In the arid countryside, the poor scrape the soil at wages of 60? a day while absentee landlords flatly refuse to follow the Shah's lead in giving up some of their property to the peasants. In recent years the cost of living has risen steadily. The nation's foreign exchange has been drained dangerously...
Died. Hugh Hammond Bennett, 79, chief of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service from its founding in 1935 until his 1952 retirement, a folksy Cassandra whose warnings that the U.S. must improve its conservation practices were largely ignored before the great dust storms of the 19305s; of cancer; in Burlington, N.C. A North Carolina farmer's son who had done Government conservation work for 32 budget-lean years prior to setting up the SCS, Bennett won one of his first big appropriations by leading several Congressmen to a Capitol window, pointing to a cloud of dust, and saying: "There goes...