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...basic trouble is a prolonged, three-year drought along its vast watershed, on the east side of the Rockies. Lower valley residents,unable to do much about the weather, angrily blamed upstream dams and irrigation pumpers. Downstream pumping for irrigation has been rationed for 15 months; the crops, livelihood of 670,000 Texans and Mexicans, are fast withering away. This week upstream farmers agreed to cut down on pumping, and a thin trickle of water appeared at Laredo. But it didn't change things much. "The valley," says Brownsville Judge Oscar Dancy, "has its back to the wall. People...
Samuel A. Olevson '54, past president and now membership chairman of the UN Council, said that he had an eight or nine page brief to present to Watson. This brief, he claimed, would inform the dean of the Council's value to college extra-curricular activities. Cutting off the livelihood of the group would "eventually cause Harvard University to be the loser. Essentially, there is no difference between presenting football games commercially and showing films for a profit...
Just who are these gangsters; these strong-arm ''preservers of American ideals" who can intimidate American businessmen so with threats of boycott (if you can't drag 'em off to jail, ruin their means of livelihood) that they are able to dictate which movies a free people will or will not see? ... Los Angeles is my home. I hope to return there when this mess is over, and when I again plunk down my buck for a loge in Grauman's Chinese Theater, I want to know I am seeing a movie the manager...
...weeks, often longer. They are screened by allied and West German intelligence. Ultimately each stands one day before a three-man tribunal and gets a chance to prove that he is a bona fide political refugee; this means he must show he stood to lose his means of livelihood or his life under the Reds. If he succeeds, he wins the cherished rating which qualifies him to be flown west (at the expense of the West German government) for a chance at a new life...
Reactionary. In Tokyo, Mrs. Sumie Kawasaki, founder and president of the Women's Livelihood Cooperative Association, finally had to tell members that they were hopelessly in the red, suggested they hire a male business manager...