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...limiting the number of abandoned pets." Nonsense! The type that would use a clinic would not abandon animals and vice versa. Spaying clinics are all underutilized, even where "binding" contracts for sterilizing are signed at the time of pet purchase. The fact that a vast majority of the puppy crop comes from the middle and upper classes of society means that the whole issue of tax-subsidized pet ownership has to be re-evaluated...
...kept poor blacks and whites fighting for its leavings, these people helped to nourish the roots of racism, even though they discriminated only in the most genteel ways--much like Harvard today, with its fashionably mild distaste for the Afro-American Studies Department and its yearly production of a crop of youth to fill the houses of suburbia. If Saturday's student marchers end up as part of that crop of youth, the march--though it will still have an immediate impact, and still be important--will also deserve all the labels its opponents will undoubtedly pin on it anyway...
...Crimson will be counting on a strong showing by a new crop of freshmen as well as good repeat performances by last year's returning lettermen to take the important meet with the Green this weekend...
...gesture that was strongly supported by the U.S. delegation, wealthy countries were called on to supply 10 million tons of grain to food-short areas for each of the next three years, until the permanent stockpile can be built up. In addition, an early warning system providing world crop information will be set up to give advance notice of probable famines. These programs are to be administered by a new World Food Council, which will report to the U.N. General Assembly and have an executive committee of high-level representatives from 15 to 25 nations...
...father and entered another. Few economic systems can have been as cruelly deceptive as the one saddled on black Southern sharecroppers. They leased their land from whites, who also paid for the "furnishin' "-feed, fertilizer, tools-they needed to farm. At harvesttime sharecroppers regularly found all their crop payments flowing back into white hands. Thanks to tricky mortgages, their personal possessions often went as well...