Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pound bags of beans to the U.K. in 1966, the last year for which the figures are available. Since the H. J. Heinz Co. has over 50% of the market in the U.K., it is therefore reasonable to assume that Heinz's purchases accounted for more than one-half of the Michigan sales, or nearly 600,000 hundred-pound bags. Obviously, we think the British people have excellent food taste...
Several months after he took over as President last December, Jorge Pacheco Areco started remarking, only half-jokingly, that Uruguay's problems were such that he needed "a little help from heaven" to solve them. Someone up there must like him. Last week torrential rains ended a six-month drought that had ravaged Uruguay's cattle and sheep, a chief source of income, and badly damaged the economy. Rebellious students who had seized the University of Montevideo and held it for four days finally agreed to leave peacefully. And Uruguay's third general strike in a month...
Knoxville's power structure has consistently harrassed student body members. Over 400, about half of the student body, have been taken downtown for interrogation. Students report being asked, "Why is your hair like that? You and who else killed Boruff? Did outsiders start trouble over there? Who are the black power troublemakers...
...West Berlin's residents are now 65 or older (v. 12½% in West Germany). According to one macabre local joke, undertaking is the city's only booming business; yet even that is not free from problems. Because of a shortage of cemetery space and gravediggers, almost half the city's dead are now cremated-with the result that the city's two crematoriums have become overburdened. To cope with the emergency, the city plans to add a third...
Things smell more in the heat. The heat holds the smell in, brings it closer to you. You can smell the garbage rotting in the sun next door. And when you walk by Briggs & Briggs there is some dog crap all wet in the sidewalk and it smells up half a block and it smells up your shoes...