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...that were not enough, a late freeze in the Deep South left fruit and vegetable crops devastated. Heavy rains had already delayed the planting of corn, watermelon and tobacco in Georgia, and rice, wheat and cotton in Louisiana. The apple and peach farmers in the northern part of Georgia found most of their potential harvests frozen on the trees...
Show said some association members will fast each Tuesday for the rest of the semester on water and vitamins or fruit juices. Fasters will man tables--rotating to two different Houses each week--urging students to join the fast and circulating petitions calling for divestiture...
Barry S. Zellen '85 said yesterday that he was feeling much better since he stopped fasting and began eating only fruit on Sunday...
...houses of fortunate correspondents. One woman described her wish to give her husband an orange tree, something he's always wanted. Another wife hoped to win a drum set for her fireman husband because he had to sell his old one. Admittedly, not owning a drum set of a fruit tree doesn't constitute economic destitution. But the viewers' letters and obvious joy (a camera crew of course record the happy fantasy realization, "it's a miracle," the tree recipient said) suggest their unhappy financial situations and consequent inability to continue hobbies. perhaps it stretches arm-chair psychology...
...addition, two more students joined the fruit-and-water fast this weekend, and S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation, donated 250 cans of V-8 juice to the protesters...