Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President of Radcliffe, Mrs. Mary I. Bunting, apparently feels that the threat of a large financial deficit is sufficient cause to limit sharply the number of Cliffies eligible to move into their own apartments next year. In response, a growing number of girls organized a hunger strike to force Mrs. Bunting to relax the restrictions...
...Sunday, 19 girls are on the fourth day of a hunger strike. Four have already become too weak to go on; one of them, Carole Adams, is in the infirmary. We have received a great deal of tangible support -- a generally favorable press. TV and radio coverage, supporting telegrams from NSA and the University of Buffalo, several encouraging letters and cards, flowers from unknown supporters cartons of cigarettes and Realist reprints for our amusement...
...scrabble out a living. In the Northeast, a barren, beaten land more than twice the size of Texas, average per-capita income is down to $100 a year, illiteracy runs 75% and the life span of the area's 28 million people has been cut by hunger and disease to an appalling 35. As the Northeast's Composer-Singer Geraldo Vandre wails...
...unreconstructed variety that persists, for example, in Latin America. But it was surprising that he did not acknowledge the way in which business enterprise has developed into a creative, socially conscious component of the industrial West. The encyclical took insufficient account of other reali ties-that poverty and hunger have most successfully been attacked where private enterprise has been encouraged, and that even in sectors of the Commu nist world, the despised profit motive is now tacitly accepted as a necessary stimulus to productivity...
...well have as great an impact on the health of billions of people yet unborn as did the work of Pasteur in revealing the mechanism of infections, or of Lister in preventing them. For if the pill can defuse the population explosion, it will go far toward eliminating hunger, want and ignorance. So far, it has reached only a tiny fraction of the world's 700 million women of childbearing age, but its potential is clear from U.S. experience. Of the 39 million American women capable of motherhood, 7,000,000 have already taken the pills; some...