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...easy. For one thing, the rice-eating people of Kerala stubbornly refuse to supplement their diet with other grain. Thus President Johnson's announcement last week authorizing shipment of 3,000,000 tons of wheat and maize to replenish India's depleted food supplies will be a boon to the nation, but will not necessarily keep the rioters off the streets in Kerala...
...business than men," says Supapan Mejudhon, 21, who helps her mother run a flourishing 49-boat ferry fleet on the bustling Chao Phraya River. "They like to sit at a desk and do routine jobs, while we like to run around." Mrs. Bessie Punyanitya Samargachan, 37, has expanded her Boon Vanit Travel Agency from a tiny concern with one part-time guide into one of Thailand's biggest agencies, with 80 employees and a fleet of 20 buses and cars. Perhaps the most eminent Thai businesswoman of all is Mrs. Lursakdi Sombatsiri, owner and operator of Bangkok...
...which A.B.A. canons of ethics sternly forbid, the association has voted to aid such efforts (TIME, Aug. 20). The trend may particularly benefit law schools. The University of Detroit Law School, for example, recently promoted a new state ruling permitting law students to try cases in court-a boon to the legal-aid clinic that the university is setting up with a $242,000 Government grant. The University of Michigan Law School is following suit. As one student puts it: "We're hungry for bread-and-butter experience...
Long, Cool Summer. Though these and other charges made the headlines, the great, little-noted majority of federally aided anti-poverty programs in 13,344 different U.S. areas seem by contrast to be more boon than doggie. Nearly 350,000 underprivileged youngsters (the majority of them Negro) are currently working in the most effective of all the organizations: the Neighborhood Youth Corps. Their new-found employment has put money in their pockets, taught them work skills and hobbies, and-despite fears of Wattslike racial violence-helped make the past summer a long, cool one for most...
Manager's Ideal. Beame's victory in the primary came as a surprise, since the front-running candidate, City Council President Paul Screvane, had an undisputed record of administrative ability as well as the not-unmixed boon of Mayor Robert Wagner's blessing. Yet Beame, as a candidate for mayor of New York, could almost have been invented by a campaign manager. Born in London, in the course of his poor Jewish parents' emigration from Warsaw, he grew up on the bleakest Lower East Side, earned his tuition through the College of the City...