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Moreover, the Vietnamese countryside has not recovered from the ravages of the war that ended in 1975. The country is suffering from a chronic food shortage, with an estimated shortfall in the rice harvest last year of 1.5 million metric tons. Building materials are scarce and there is a shortage of skilled manpower...
...million plant will go into operation next year and by 1981 will turn out 750 metric tons of bleached kraft pulp a day, enough to make a single strand of toilet paper stretching more than 6½ times around the world. (The pulp will be used for other products as well...
...account for about 25 cents of every dollar spent by consumers. HEW'S education division distributes aid to schools and colleges and helps fund Sesame Street, the TV program that delights and instructs the nation's small fry. There are other programs for ethnic studies and for mastering the metric system. Human development services provide help for the handicapped, as well as runaway youths, abused children, Indian tribes and Alaskan natives. HEW also runs Head Start, a program that prepares disadvantaged youngsters for school. It offers vocational rehabilitation, "meals on wheels" for older people who cannot leave their homes, vending...
...likelihood, the 1978 Harvard track team will take longer to learn the new metric measures than it will to find its own identity. In fact, after this afternoon's meet, Crimson coaches Bill McCurdy and Ed Stowell should have a fair idea of what this spring will bring for the trackmen...
...season is amazingly short, and Harvard, which will adopt metric measurements in its home stadium for the first time, wastes no time getting into the thick of things. The team opens today at 1:30 p.m. in the stadium against powerhouse Northeastern. Add this all-out war to Saturday's meeting with the Tigers, in Princeton, and before the season is a week old. Harvard will have run its two toughest dual meets of the season...