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...Limoeiro (pop. 30,000) last week, reported TIME Correspondent John Blashill, a mob of 1,000 men, women and children-some armed with shotguns and hoes-shouted angrily for "Food! Food!" Only by collecting donations from alarmed merchants did the local sheriff avert a battle. In five other towns, stores were sacked; in a sixth, a gun battle left one dead and two wounded. Officials of Pernambuco state belatedly impounded what food was left (speculators had bought up most of the crop, were selling it at markups of 500% to 1,000%). The federal government declared an emergency throughout...
...almost the same salary they made for working a six-hour day.) Kennedy made it clear that he intends his Administration to keep a close watch on the economy-and to act when necessary. "If private demand shows unexpected strength," he said, "public policy must and will act to avert the dangers of rising prices. If demand falls short of current expectations, more expansionary policies must be pursued. In 1962, vigilance and flexibility must be the guardians of economic optimism...
...electricity ignited gas escaping from a blown valve at a well called GT2, the Gassi Touil fire would, if it went unchecked, burn for the next century, wasting forever one of the largest underground reservoirs of natural gas (an estimated 7 trillion cu. ft.) yet tapped by man. To avert this economic tragedy, the field's owners-a combine consisting of two French companies, called COPEFA and OMNIREX, and the U.S.'s Phillips Petroleum Co.-have called in daredevil Texan Paul Adair, 46, president of Houston's Red Adair Oil Well Fires & Blowouts Control...
...Muslim minister identified the American black man with the Biblical slaves in Egypt. The "Moses" of the Black Muslims is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the inspired leader of the group. "God has revealed the solution to Mr. Muhammed, and if the modern 'Pharoah' [the federal government] wants to avert the wrath of God it must go to Elijah Muhammad to find out what it must...
...folks, she makes all the predictable mistakes: wears her shoes in the house, interrupts when a man is talking, steps into a car before her husband, squeals when a male friend of the family attempts to share her bath. Back in Washington again, her husband works hard to avert war, and when it comes he orders his wife to stay in the U.S. with their daughter. She gravely refuses, and the rest of the picture describes what life was like in wartime Japan for a sweet young thing from back-country Tennessee. It wasn't exactly chrysanthemums...