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...says matter-of-factly. "Mine is on the bottom." The three coffins cost him $625, all told, including the grave sites on the hill across from his house, not far from where his father is buried. It is a sizable sum, built up over the years from the surplus grain and vegetables he has been able to sell since farmers' markets were legalized in 1979 by Deng Xiaoping. Chen is content: after seven decades of working the soil and being nourished by it, he has made all the arrangements to return to it, in the simplest of life cycles...
...step in a democratic direction. "Party functionaries no longer control a family's access to rice or sugar or fertilizer, and that leads to greater freedom in other areas," says TIME correspondent Jay Branegan. "If you don't need the local party leader in order to have your grain, you don't have to toe the line as much...
Although the immediate effects of Zimmerman's loss translated into three straight Crimson defeats, there was a grain of positive energy that surfaced in his place. The enigma of the first half of the season soon became clearer as Harvard recognized its over-reliance on the All-American's abilities...
...more immediate level, the Student Council took up the issue of the European food shortage. After President Truman called on the nation to curtail food consumption and conserve grain in late September 1947, enthusiastic members of the Council spent months wrangling over the implementation of a University-wide conservation program...
Beginning with ambitious plans to eliminate meat two days a week, grain products from one meal a day and butter another day each week, the beginning of the spring term saw the Council no closer to a food rationing program than it had been the previous fall...