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NUCLEAR ELECTRICITY for rural co-ops will be slow in coming because of inflation. With costs zooming, American Machine & Foundry backed out of deal with AEC to construct reactor for proposed rural co-op at Elk River, Minn., and Foster Wheeler Corp. withdrew offer to supply reactor for another co-op at Grand Rapids...
...reputation for solving social and economic problems from Iraq to Puerto Rico, A.D.L. took on two new projects: ¶ It contracted with the International Cooperation Administration and the Philippine government to expand 300 credit-lending rural coops. Organized in 1952 to free small farmers from local Chinese moneylenders, the co-op system needs expert management help. ICA will pay $368,000 to cover A.D.L.'s U.S. expenses (including a $38,300 fee), while the Philippines pay the company's overseas expenses with counterpart pesos. In return, A.D.L. will set up 700 more coops, train a local staff...
...commercial center that is Harvard Square today includes three European coffee houses. There are also 6,000,000 books in its libraries, ten bookstores, a print sale at the Co-op, and two pianos in Sever 11. An artistic revival is apparently in progress. While the left banks of the Charles and the Seine are not yet synonymous, the nucleus for the new aestheticism is here, and a creative revival is said to be well...
...controlling the co-op's budget, the college allows each girl to spend 50 cents a day on staples--flour, coffee, and other non-perishable products--and 30 cents for dinner. Out of this sum, the girls prepare breakfast in the house and eat dinner on a per capita basis. And with clever shopping, the small dinner allotment can be cut, as it was in Everett last year to 20 cents. Occasionally, such economy requires a drive to the open-air market in Haymarket Square for bulk purchases...
Cooking involves taking turns in preparing a buffetstyle breakfast, marketing, and cooking dinner--the one common meal of the day. Within budget limitations, co-op residents can usually afford to eat one egg, three glasses of milk and a glass of juice per day, as well as bread, peanut butter and jelly from their supply of staples. Some buy lunch in the Square--thereby considerably adding to their expenses--but most manage to get along on the house staples...