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...Adventures. Nine years after Castro's victorious march into Havana, rationing is still the Cuban's biggest gripe. The monthly rice allowance is down to 3 Ibs. per person, meat to ½Ib. Men are allowed only one new shirt and pair of trousers a year; women, one new dress a year, if available. Because of a similar shortage of spare parts, appliances and machines are constantly breaking down. Anything that does run fetches a capitalist's ransom. A nine-year-old G.E. refrigerator that "still cools" brought $2,000 in Havana recently; a rusted...
Corporation expenses were also much higher this year than ever before, with much more money going for customer services. HSA installed a machine to answer the telephone and take messages at night; and also prints a weekly gripe sheet in the Harvard Student Calendar...
MOST STUDENTS don't have to wrack their brains when they gripe about Harvard. They complain--often nonchalantly--about parietal rules, course requirements, restrictions on off-campus living, the inaccessability of many professors, the long march from Radcliffe and the Houses to the Yard, and a thousand other things...
Back at Chu Lai for a pre-departure press conference, Humphrey told reporters: "I almost hate to go back. I haven't heard a single gripe from one American-but when I get back to Washington, I'm sure that I will be able to compensate...
Corridors are generously studded with nooks and crannies, because, explains Pei: "When scientist meets scientist on a corner, there should be an opportunity to pause and talk." At the moment, the talk is as likely as not to be about the new building. Some scientists have been heard to gripe that there is not enough lab space, but by and large the vote is strongly affirmative. Says J. Doyne Sartor, program scientist in cloud physics: "This building has a personality." Adds Electronics Engineer Raymond Chu: "Scientists or engineers will never be completely satisfied with any building. But this...