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What is ahead for the Trinhs? At first haltingly, then with increasing verve, they pour out their hopes and concerns. Says the eldest brother, Tuyen, 24: "I'll do anything for now, but some day I want to get a few acres of land and grow fruit trees as I did in Viet Nam." Tuyen is satisfied with his first job. He is stuffing feathers in down coats for a clothing manufacturer at $4.50 an hour. Brother Thanh is tinkering at home. "I found this broken television set in the garbage on the street, and I'm trying...
...America. At a quarantine depot in Liverpool, Louise had the first visual experience she can still clearly remember: a sweetshop at night, with rows of glass jars glittering under the electric glare, each jar filled with a different sort of colored candy-toffees, bull's-eyes, peppermints, fruit gums. "It looked like heaven," she recalls. "It was very magical." There is an obvious and durable link between that epiphany in the candy store and the regulating image of Nevelson's mature work: the serried boxes, each holding its array of repeated forms, offered for inspection in a shallow...
been, a substitute for strength and unity, but rather the fruit of that endeavor; to the degree that it loses that backdrop of strength, it loses its utility for our purposes. We must tell the Soviets that we shall not agree to any more arms control talks or to any more credit transfers and commercial operations as long as they violate international law. On Western Europe. NATO will shortly find itself...
...Karasiewiczes' overriding concern is food, which consumes 50% of their income and much of their time. The plant in Ursus helps out. It furnishes employees with a hearty breakfast each day (fruit juice, soup or goulash, sausage, bread, coffee, tea or milk), and gives them coupons redeemable at the factory for 3.2 lbs. of meat per worker each month for about two-thirds of what it costs, when available, at the butcher shops. But when Maria gets off work after an eight-hour day finishing steel tractor parts, she must stand in the interminable queues at the neighborhood supermarket...
...kept apart by the Indonesians, who sat between them at all the meetings. Professor Subroto, the Indonesian Energy Minister, headed off a vote on including Iran's denunciation of Iraq in the official record by telling the legend of the man who must decide whether to eat a fruit, in which case his father will die, or not to eat it, in which case his mother will die. Said Subroto at the end of the meeting: "OPEC demonstrated that even with a war between two of its members, it can continue to function...