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...hostile daughter (Madeleine Sherwood) and a remorse-laden son (lames Ray). Finally, there is a flip nurse (Betty Field) and the trusted family physician (Neil Fitzgerald), who has been something like a brother to the dying man. As the characters talk, a mounting pile of reportage -without even a grain of redeeming insight-gradually buries the audience...
...dropped from 74% in 1966 to 46% in 1970. While the idea once seemed willfully eccentric, a number of Harvard graduates are going into manual trades or becoming clerks or driving cabs-doing anything to grasp that "real life" from which they feel culturally separated. Against the traditional American grain, at least some are choosing downward mobility...
...bright spot in India's future is the success of "the green revolution," the dramatic breakthrough in the use of high-yield strains of grain, chemical fertilizers and advanced irrigation techniques, which increased wheat production 50% in two years. But millions still live on the edge of starvation, and will for years to come...
...position of his chief rival, General Mieczyslaw Moczar, the tough law-and-order security chief who crushed a 1947 Lodz strike in which two workers died and 80 were wounded. The Soviet Union came to Gierek's rescue by offering an estimated $500 million in credits and grain shipments. Buoyed by Soviet help, Gierek was able to cancel the price increases. The Lodz workers went back to work and the rest of the country remained quiet...
...stop, which was not very hard, considering its rate. Then the conductor and Bill and the fireman spent an hour in trying by "hollering," chasing, forcing, coaxing, pelting, praying, beseeching, and cursing to induce that calf to leave the track. It only meandered slowly along, just a "lectle grain ahead." They all returned finally to the train. Bill furiously swearing, "By the holy horns of Beelzebub, if I bust my biler, I'll run that blasted critter down." The tender was emptied into the boiler, and the fireman sat on the safety-valve, and we ploughed along like an enraged...