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...m.p.h. winds and massive tides into the Bahamas, blew into the southern tip of Florida, where thousands of tourists and residents fled inland. Winds and the highest tides to hit the state since 1926 flooded buildings, ruined crops, disrupted utility services, splintered boats and shattered waterfronts. In a brave attempt to keep guests from fleeing, luxury hotels in soaked Miami Beach threw cheer-up parties...
...reported that the July loss of $80 million was the lowest all year. This interim success has deeply impressed skeptical European bankers, who doubt that their own businessmen would put patriotism over profits. Of course, the Government has such great powers over private business that it would take a brave businessman indeed not to "volunteer" to help. Though Fowler warns that the gains may be only temporary and that further tightening of discipline is necessary, he believes that the U.S. is on its way to solving its payments problem. Says he: "The U.S. economy and its agent, the dollar...
...college, continue your knowledge To be a person, smart, brave, and true; For if they can make penicillin out of moldy cheese, They surely can make something out of you. This bit of verse was written by Arnie Gant, a 15-year-old Negro who lives in a public-housing project in The Bronx and is one of the thousands of kids whom it has become fashionable for the ex perts to call "culturally deprived." But even while resenting that tag, Arnie sees some humor in everybody's eagerness to "save" him. He wrote his wry lines for fellow...
...much of a novel; the form of fiction was obviously adopted as a device to protect the innocent from police reprisal. It is, however, a lyric celebration of the rights of man, a spiritual testament of depth and beauty, a cry of pain from the soul of a brave and decent man indecently abused...
...Behind the Bullocks. Economically, India is still an agricultural nation, despite Nehru's brave plans for industrialization. Typical of India's peasantry is "Ramoo" Sivaram, a 33-year-old farmer who lives near Hyderabad in the province of Andhra Pradesh. His wife Lakshmi is named for the Hindu goddess of prosperity, but in her 27 years she has prospered only by pregnancy: married at 13, she is today the mother of six. Each morning at 5:30, Ramoo rises and trots off to the village well to bathe himself with buckets of lukewarm, silty water, then returns...