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...reformed and the conditions that gave impetus to these songs are rapidly disappearing. The prisoners don't sing the songs as often as they used to, and only the older inmates remember the days when men would sever their Achilles tendons in order to avoid slave labor in the cane and cotton fields. By recording the stories and songs of the prisoners, Jackson has provided a valuable record of one of the bleaker chapters in American history...
Grants from the National Endowment favor the very practical. Support recently has been given to help artists put on shows and to provide funds for building museum collections. Harvard's Fogg Museum, for example, recently received a $10,000 grant to improve its photographic collection. Louis Cane, whom Hyde claims is the most serious McGovern fund raiser (especially in regard to the arts) in New England, said, "Europe gives far more to the arts, percentage-wise, than the U.S. Here it's pennies. McGovern's attitude toward the arts is one of great involvement and interest. The National Endowment...
...department stores, Amfac absorbed other stores, including the high-fashion West Coast emporiums of Joseph Magnin and the venerable City of Paris store in San Francisco. With the five newly acquired Hutzler stores, Amfac will have 90 retail outlets by year's end. The company also raises sugar cane and cattle, processes frozen French fries, distributes electrical equipment and makes commercial and mortgage loans. In Hawaii, where land is practically as valuable as gold, Amfac owns or has long-term leases on 159,000 acres, worth hundreds of millions of dollars...
...India, the problem was drought. This year the monsoon rains in some areas were delayed later than at any other time in this century. A heat wave roasted 14 Indian states, killed 800 persons and directly affected another 50 million. The loss in standing crops such as sugar cane and jute was over $400 million, and in several states famine relief measures were introduced to give work and wages to people who would otherwise starve...
...certainly try to forget the fact. . . Divorces are made in Heaven." For a time, Allen used so many switches that friends in the trade referred to him as Allen Woody. He carried a sword on the street, he said; in case of an attack it turned into a cane, so people would feel sorry for him. He carried a bullet in his breast pocket; someone threw a Bible at him and the bullet saved his life...