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...fare home," insists Ralph Cadeaux, chief of special services at the U.S. consulate in London. Some 300 young supplicants call on Cadeaux every week. In bona fide emergencies, he lets them call home from the consulate-collect. In Paris, only the seriously injured, the infirm and those with a hardship story good enough to make strong men weep have any hope of parting the consulate from $235 for air fare home and a $40 subsistence allowance. Of the hundreds of hard-luck kids whom consular officers interviewed last year, only eleven passed his truth test. One headache...
...earth." Mao wanted to do nothing less than transform the traditional Chinese peasant-passive, materialistic, instinctively dependent on a ruling elite -into a new Maoist Man. He would be self-reliant but unswervingly loyal to the state, a faithful fanatic who would "neither seek fame or gain nor fear hardship or death, but toil body and soul for the people." Only such a man, the Chairman believes, can prevent the Chinese revolution from sliding into Soviet-style "softness" and "revisionism...
...South Africa resolution, Pusey said the Corporation would have voted affirmative "if we had thought it would make a significant contribution in the elimination of apartheid in the Republic of South Africa; but since we had no information it would, and since it seems certain it would work hardship on the employees affected, we decided to oppose this proposal...
...South Africa resolution, Pusey said the Corporation would have voted affirmative "if we had thought it would make a significant contribution to the elimination of apartheid in the Republic of South Africa; but since we had no information it would, and since it seems certain it would work hardship on the employees affected, we decided to oppose this proposal...
...after Judge Ferguson's ruling, the Memphis Pros signed Johnny Neumann of Mississippi for $2,000,000. Neumann, a 6-ft. 6½-in. sophomore, was the leading college scorer this season with a 40.1 average. A.B.A. Commissioner Dolph said pointedly: "It's not a hardship case...