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...fish went from 370 to $1.44 per lb., and live chickens from $1.50 to $7.00 apiece. But farmers in the area were in such a rush to take advantage of the high prices that they hurried supplies into the city. Result: prices dipped downward again-though they still remain about 15% above pre-Tet levels. Despite the higher prices and some temporary shortages of vegetables and chicken, most Saigonese have continued to eat fairly well; there have been no serious nutritional deficiencies in their diet. Against the possibility of another attack, many families have laid in a one month...
...puck. Whoosh! he flashed across the Oakland blue line. Wham! he absorbed a brutal check from Seal Defender George Swarbrick that seemed to stagger him. Hull's shoulders sagged, his curved stick came up, and for the briefest instant, Swarbrick relaxed. Whap! Hull's stick slashed downward; 25 ft. away, Goalie Hodge could not even begin to react as the rock-hard rubber disk, traveling at better than 100 m.p.h., whistled past his knee into...
Cliffies are to blame, at least in part, for the decrease, William A. Shutzer '69 said yesterday. While contributions from Harvard successfully reversed the downward trend of the past four years, Radcliffe response was extremely disappointing...
CHAPPAQUA. Instead of writing his autobiography, Conrad Rooks has made an 82-minute apologia pro sua dolce vita on film, playing himself as the mixed-up son of a rich man who spirals downward into the junkie's world of hallucination and finally emerges to self-realization...
From foolish permissiveness to foolish repressiveness, too many American middle-class parents careen downward from the joys of birth to the final whimper, "What did we do wrong?" The hard answer is that failed parents tend to be failed people who use children for their own emotional hang-ups. They never stop, look or listen to the kids; they never grasp that parenthood is a full-time job, perhaps the most important job in a chronically changing America. They never see the challenge: teaching a child integrity-the self-respect that makes for strong, kind men and women...