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...crowded out thousands of the city's longtime residents; more than 70% of the 61,692 persons on relief have lived in Detroit since before 1950. Children under three get an allowance of $5.50 a week for food, an active adult gets $10.60. The city also pays for fuel, rent and clothing. Counting city and state funds, welfare payments in Detroit this year will total around $28 million, compared with...
Rights of Swing (Candid). More fuel for a familiar argument: Is it possible to "compose" jazz and keep it fresh? The answer here is yes. Composer-Saxophonist Phil Woods, building in lines both propulsive and direct, has fashioned a five-part work that is always coherent and brimful of relaxed charm. High points are Woods's own sax solos-lean and subtly responsive to the humors of music and musician...
...containers-blast might break glass bottles-anything would do in an emergency. The food should be imperishable or long-lasting, and neither salty nor sweet, to inhibit thirst. Says Margaret Moore, nutritionist for the Louisiana Board of Health: "Keep a few canned vegetables you can eat cold, to conserve fuel supply. Decide which canned meats you like cold, remembering saltiness. Pickles will help ease thirst, and canned vegetables are an extra source of liquid...
Standard weapon of U.S. nuclear submarines, the Polaris burns solid fuel, and it cannot be steered, as liquid-fuel rockets are, by swiveling the whole combustion chamber. Instead, Polarises now at sea use jetavators-movable nozzles inserted in their jet streams to deflect them and thus keep the rocket on course. No one likes jetavators; they are inherently troublesome, and their drag on the fast-moving jet stream soaks up precious thrust power even when they...
Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. The author's first work in hard cover since Nine Stories (1953), a reprinting of two long New Yorker stories about the seven prodigious Glass siblings, is a joyous, balanced, masterly book, convoluted and mystical enough to fuel dormitory debates for several seasons...