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...sponsoring a folk concert tonight at 8 p.m. in the Rindge Tech auditorium featuring John Hammond Jr., Gram Parsons '69, Geoff Muldaur, Mitch Greenhill, Fritz Richmond, and the Jim Kweskin Trio. Tickets may be purchased at the door...
...President exulted too soon. Last week, thanks to an incredible blunder by Housing and Home Finance Agency Administrator Robert Weaver, the pro gram was dead. Its demise was hastened by the curiosity of Michigan Republican James Harvey, 43, who found HHFA experts suspiciously reluctant to circulate the regulations covering financial eligibility for rent aid. Harvey demanded a copy and, as a member of the House's housing subcommittee, got one immediately. To his astonishment, Harvey found that under Weaver's HHFA-approved rules relating to the elderly and the handicapped (who could collect up to 70% of their...
...impossible to live in China for five years without picking up many Chinese social values. Waste of any kind is one of the worst sins there; math problems frequently take the form: "If every Chinese wasted one grain of rice each day and each grain of rice weighs one gram...." I learned to write on both sides of scratch paper before throwing it away and to use pencils until I could barely hold them. We always ate everything off our plates including the crust of rice around the edge of a bowl...
Satisfying No One. None of the whimpering defendants denied their deeds. They merely maintained they were following doctors' orders, faced punishment if they refused, and did not realize the gravity of their offense. "When Frau Doktor told me to give a patient five grams of luminal," explained Luise Erdmann, 63, "I naturally assumed there had been a mistake, and gave the normal dose of .5 gram." When she learned Frau Doktor had meant what she said, Luise went to the head physician and was told that it was all done on orders from above. "If it hadn...
Never a Malted. "This really is a very simple diet," they assert. "It can be summed up in one sentence: EAT LESS THAN SIXTY GRAMS OF CARBOHYDRATE A DAY. That's all there is to it." (Sixty grams are about two ounces.) At first, say the authors, the dieter will have to consult the tables to avoid ordering lima beans (15 gm. of carbohydrate to an average serving) instead of green beans (a mere 3 gm.). Afterward, they claim, it will be easy to run down the menu and pick poached filet of sole, champagne sauce-"perhaps one gram...