Word: food
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Year Sir: I nominate the Woodstock Nation as your Man of the Year. A city was created overnight, despite inclement weather, lack of food, lack of sanitation, disorganization. Yet here was one spot on earth, during these turbulent '60s, where there was PEACE...
...Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam-have buried deep political antagonisms and have been swept up in what they call the spirit of the Mekong. They envision a vast project to harness the Mekong River for power, irrigation and flood control; that could enable the region to grow enough food to feed much of Asia and attract foreign investment to the participating countries. The 2,600-mile Mekong, the world's eleventh longest river and one of the least used, rises in the Himalayan plateau of China near Tibet, plunges turbulently through the mountain gorges of Yunnan, and emerges...
Friedman has a big recipe for economic reform, and he calls for an end to many politically sacred Government programs. A sampling of his ideas: FOOD STAMPS. "There is nothing you can do with stamps that you cannot do better by giving people money. The real drive behind food stamps is not to help the poor; it's to dispose of farm surpluses." Friedman calls the farm-subsidy program, which piles up huge surpluses in grain elevators, "a free-lunch program for mice and rats." PUBLIC HOUSING. "It was instituted in the 1930s to improve the housing of the poor...
...FOOD. The Department of Labor food-price index jumped 5% from January to October. In Pittsburgh, the price of eggs almost doubled overnight from 43? to 83? per dozen. The price of pork chops in Boston increased from 99? to $1.39. One shopper in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Mrs. Richard Davis, protested: "This can of soup had four prices on it when I bought it." The final price was 11? more than the first. The nickel Hershey bar vanished, and practically nobody could find a 10? cup of coffee...
...Glow. Gibbon got off to an unlikely start to be historian of anything. Until he was in his teens, he was so frail that his father, Edward Gibbon, gave the name Edward to several succeeding sons-just in case. By his own account, young Gibbon "swallowed more Physic than food," had a "strange nervous affection" in his legs, and was bitten by "a dog most vehemently suspected of madness...