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...Traffic Jam. In Tempe, Ariz., Scott Whitcock tied his horse to a hitching rack, left it there too long, came back to find a parking ticket tied to the saddle horn...
Breakfast did not take long. Frank had three eggs, half a dozen strips of home-cured bacon, four pieces of toast heavy with butter and jam, two cups of coffee. It was close to 7 o'clock when the four clattered off to the fields in the battered 1934 Dodge light truck...
...dissatisfied, yet satisfied that his dissatisfaction was balanced by that of the others, may have been a brand new idea to the Russians. At first, the smallest and vaguest deals were blown up into diplomatic triumphs. The N. Y. Herald Tribune joyously reported "the first break in the log-jam." What was it? Merely that "a private meeting appointed a committee to study a plan to postpone the [Italian] colonial question for a year...
Some 4% of Budapest's citizens live in morbid, black-market-borne luxury, nightly jam the few remaining big hotels, famed restaurants like Gundel's or the Cafe Michel, theaters, cabarets and movie houses. For the rest of the people, food rations are down to 556 calories...
...devious execution of the program by University officials closely connected with the dining halls. Showing no conception of the spirit of the campaign, they have included more costly, and sometimes superfluous fruit to substitute for salad at dessertless meals, and have absurdly insisted on offering margarine and jam when there is no bread. In contrast, higher administrative officials for the most part have cooperated to the fullest and have turned over to the Food Relief Committee the $2400 estimated in advance to be the dollar value of the food reductions...