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...error due to my own confusion, for which I apologize to Crimson readers. As to Chavez's health during the march, Chavez himself says [on page 211 and 212] the pain was severe. "I was so miserable, I thought I was going to die...By then my leg was swollen all the way up to my thigh, and I was running a high fever. I continued walking, but on the seventh day, because I was shaking with fever, the nurse put me in the station wagon." In short, the man was in pretty tough shape...
...swollen and puffed up; I looked like a Frankenstein monster," complained Astrologer-Author Sybil Leek, recalling her visit to South Carolina last November. Scheduled to address a convention of auto executives, Sybil had stopped by the Hilton Head Inn pool beforehand "for a few deep breaths of good air." The seer failed to see a stream of gas from a rusty chemical cylinder, however, and instead of air, inhaled some escaping chlorine. The result, says Astrologer Leek, was a case of chemical pneumonia, a four-day hospital stay and two months of severe headaches. Forgoing mystical incantations, the astrologer last...
...long-existing system under which postal rates and postal expenditures were set by Congress. Fiscal year 1972 was a period of transition. In fiscal year 1973, the first year of full operation, the "reform" postal system generated a deficit of $13 million. In fiscal year 1974, the deficit had swollen to $438 million; in fiscal year 1975, which ended this summer, the deficit was $825 million; and in the current fiscal year, which will end June 30, 1976, the Postmaster General currently predicts that the deficit will exceed $1.4 billion-and then only if another substantial increase in postal rates...
...recent years the ranks of decoration wearers in France have been swollen by purchasers of secondhand medals in flea markets. The lowest-ranking medal of the Legion of Honor, the "Chevalier," can be bought for $50 at the French government mint. There are, of course, penalties (up to two years in prison) for wearing unauthorized decorations, but these are seldom if ever enforced. One reason may be that having a medal does not involve much in the way of an earthly reward; the holder of the lowest grade of the Legion of Honor, for example, gets the princely stipend...
...recent years, the nation's labor force has been swollen by a vast influx of new people looking for work. Between 1968 and 1974, the labor force grew by 11 million people, or 2 million more than the Government's Bureau of Labor Statistics had projected. (The labor force now totals 93.4 million-so that each percentage point of the unemployment rate stands for 934,000 people who want jobs and cannot get them.) Many of the new entrants are blacks; many more are women and teenagers, some of whom are seeking to earn second incomes in families...