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...stately ceremonies, no cheering throngs. Instead, he arrived unheralded in a police ambulance, to be greeted by two of his old aides. Salazar himself, still partially paralyzed and suffering from seriously impaired speech and perception, is not yet aware that he was replaced as Premier. For his homecoming, the stricken old statesman needed only one piece of luggage: an ancient suitcase, which he is said to have carried when he entered Coimbra University as a student nearly 60 years...
...break the circle of despair may be to give them some form of guaranteed income, minimal as it might be. Incentives could be set up so that work would be rewarded and no one would live comfortably off the Government. The poor would remain, but the really poverty-stricken would disappear. The worst deprivation would be done away with. It would not be cheap?as much as $30 billion a year (as against the present total welfare bill to federal, state and city governments of $5.5 billion). The proponents of the scheme argue convincingly, however, that the cost...
Mere Trickles. The drought, caused by lack of rain and scant snowfall in the Andes watersheds, affects twelve of Chile's 25 provinces. In the nine most seriously stricken provinces, rivers are mere trickles, reservoirs are empty or almost so, and pastureland lies parched. Unfortunately, these are Chile's most populous and most productive areas: they normally provide 52% of the country's wheat and 88% of its beans-both basic Chilean foods...
More than thirty freshmen have been stricken with a mysterious "potato bug" which may be traceable to Tuesday night's dinner in the Freshman Union, according to the University Health Services...
...stricken freshman described the illness as "just feeling rotten all over, particularly in the gut." Another said "My stomach felt like it was having inner turmoil. My head was throbbing like a bell-tower. I felt...