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...late to check the actual food that might have done the damage. He asked a few questions about how the food was handled and was satisfied that everything and everyone in the kitchen was spic and span. And he ran a stool test on one stricken student and was pleased to find that there was no trace of anything embarrassing, except that the stool test could not reveal the embarrassing substances anyway...
...without checking into exactly what all the stricken people ate, or even considering that an estimated one in every five persons from Eliot House, where the disease centered, actually bothered to report the illness, the engineer decided unobtrusively that some sort of wild-fire illness swooped down Sunday night on Eliot House, brushed the two adjacent Houses, and departed Monday after completing its gastric devastation...
From New Delhi, the Secretary flew first to Dacca. There he conferred with Bangladesh Prime Minister Mujibur Rahman, who has expressed disappointment over the U.S.'s limited offer of food aid to his drought-stricken country...
Even the beggars of Calcutta are better off than the estimated 15 million people now starving in West Bengal. "In the Kutch district of drought-stricken Gujarat," adds Shepherd, "peasants patiently wait for dogs and vultures to finish picking at the carcasses of dead cattle. The hungry gather up the bones and sell them to mills where they are made into bone dust, a kind of fertilizer...
...libertarian, Kalven frequently argued First Amendment cases, including Entertainer Lenny Bruce's 1963 obscenity appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court; contemptuous of censorship, he regarded obscenity laws as "foolish and trivial." A projected major work on legal theories underlying freedom of speech was half completed when he was stricken...