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Sometimes the crunch is just physically painful. Many districts have found themselves unable to afford the required matching payments for the federal school lunch program even in areas where the school lunch is the only solid meal a child gets all day. In such circumstances, teachers find ironic the Department of Agriculture's newest radio pitch for the lunch program, which reminds citizens that "you can't teach a hungry child...
Marriage Proposals. On a night-ambush patrol, he tried to place his men quietly in a cornfield, but "it kept going crunch . . . I dropped my rifle once and I couldn't find it. I realized, God I'm spooking the water buffalos, and 1 have herds overrunning me. I'm waking the V.C. nation...
...symptoms are familiar. What's bothering Blue of late is the mounting crunch of success. Says he: "You go to a town and the newspapers say 'sensational this' and 'sensational that,' and there may be 30,000 or 40,000 people out there at the ballpark. They're all staring and wondering whether I'm for real, whether I'm a robot, whether I'm human. There's a guy on third and nobody out, and they expect you to strike out the side. Not maybe two ground balls and a strikeout. No, three straight strikeouts they want. Nine straight...
...movie industry, partly from a desire to shuck the formal, gaudy pastimes of old in favor of a more casual lifestyle. While stars who once made a million dollars a year are now frequently making less than half that, they are hardly hurting for a meal. But the economic crunch has taken its toll. Discotheques are closing, servants are being let go, and psychiatrists have more leisure time. Private jets and yachts are up for grabs. Hostesses are turning from expensive fresh-flower arrangements to polished fruit to adorn their tables...
...Protestant churches almost steadily since the 1920s. The central issues vary from church to church, but they center on three areas of disagreement: strict v. liberal interpretation of the Bible, evangelism v. social action, and a distrust of ecumenism v. an eagerness for church merger. U.S. Episcopalians felt the crunch of disagreement last fall (TIME, Nov. 2), Presbyterians and Methodists more recently. Nowhere is the clash currently more bitter than in the 3,000,000-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, whose biennial convention in Milwaukee last week boiled over into a savage debate over the future direction of the denomination...