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...prolonged malnutrition. Domestic harvests scheduled to commence next month probably will yield only two thirds of the usual total and the next major harvest is not expected for another year. There's no guarantee that those harvests won't fail; specialists have estimated that a minimum of 600,000 metric tons of grain will be needed in Ethiopia for the next year, although many say that people could be starving for years...
...last week for a special plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee. The weather must have been very much on his mind. For the sixth consecutive year, the Soviet climate had played havoc with grain crops. The yield, according to Western estimates, was expected to measure only 170 million metric tons, well below the 220 million metric tons needed for annual consumption...
Remember back in 1975 when your grade school teacher said that in 10 years all Americans would be using the metric system. Well, the nation is just a few months away from the government's projected completed conversion date of January 1985 and supermarkets are still selling milk by the gallon...
...think you'll agree, that the consumer has probably almost lost sight of metric," says Gerald T. Underwood, director of the Commerce Department's Office of Metric Programs, "But, I think you'll find that manufacturers who are exporting good are very much concerned and involved...
Sakharov's article, "Cosmological Transitions with Alteration of the Metric Signature," is an attempt to postulate the existence of more than one time dimension in the physical universe. Friends of Sakharov believe the work is genuine and that it was submitted last March, six weeks before the physicist began his hunger strike. The piece ends with a poignant acknowledgment: "I thank my wife, Yelena Bonner, for her help." The remark intrigued Western diplomats in "Moscow. "It's a nice touch, but I don't think it means she is being rehabilitated," said one. Noted another...