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REMEMBER! said the three-column ad in Indian newspapers, TODAY is A DINNERLESS DAY. Thus the government one day last week began its campaign to prepare Indians for what has become an annual food crisis. It was bad enough last year when India harvested 88 million tons of grain, far short of the nation's need. This year the harvest is expected to fall below 75 million tons. What with some 12 million more mouths to feed, India faces its severest food crisis in two decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Threat of Famine | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

wife of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, on her way to a smart London dinner, stepped from her limousine into an open coal chute, partly disappeared. Helped out, Mrs. Houghton found she had sprained her ankle, went dinnerless back to the embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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