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...words, "given by the people of the United States of America"--this is as close to welfare living as I hope to get. USAID gives great quantities of the stuff to refugees but hasn't had much success in selling its tastiness. A lot of it ends up in hog troughs. So USAID people have printed little 'cookbooks' on 'good eating' with bulgar wheat. The refugees still don't like it and want their rice ration back...

Author: By Lawrence A. Walsh, | Title: Vietnam: An Outside Perspective | 1/24/1968 | See Source »

...against Mississippi State. One night last week against Georgia, he rattled off 42 points, including two last-second foul shots that gave L.S.U. a 79-76 victory. A few nights later, he dropped in 52 as L.S.U. trounced Tulane 100 to 91. Not that Pete is a ball hog. He is enough of a team player to lead the squad in both assists (61) and rebounds (104). But, as his father says, "He's got to put it up there for us to go anywhere. I'll kill him if he doesn't shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: A Guy Named Pete | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...find out the experiences in one or two other places where they've been concerned with this problem, such as Haverford and Wellesley, Alwin M. Pappenheimer Jr. '29, Master of Dunster House and the head of the new group said. "I think everybody agreed that if we went whole-hog and opened up parietals all the way there would be complaints...

Author: By Charles M. Hagen, | Title: New Student-Faculty Group Meets; Will Advise Masters on Parietals | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...conspicuously absent). But for sheer numbers, no one can outdo the singing King Family, who last week turned out 45 strong for their first Christmas special. Since it followed hard on the heels of their Thanksgiving show, the next blowout viewers can presumably expect is "The King Family Ground Hog Day Special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: The Nights Before Christmas | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

Along with its music and anecdotal flow, his verse had the Whitmanesque "barbaric yawp," as in "Chicago" ("Hog butcher of the world"). Sandburg could also lilt a form of American haiku...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poetry: American Troubadour | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

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