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...series of misfortunes-including the long and financially draining illness of his first wife. Before she died in 1923, she mentioned that a good new wife for her husband would be Claribel Cowan-a strong woman with blue eyes and broad shoulders who had studied music at Northwestern University...
After more than a month of virtually no rain, the skies over much of Western Europe finally opened last week. But the downpours came too late to undo the damage already suffered by farmers in northwestern France, Belgium, southern England and northern Italy. Only an estimated 92 million tons of grain, instead of the anticipated 108 million tons, will be harvested this year, says Petrus Lardinois, the European Economic Community's farm commissioner. The sugar-beet crop will probably total 9.5 million tons-1.5 million tons below expectations. Lacking fodder, many farmers are slaughtering part of their livestock herds...
Says Russell Kruckman, who once taught literature at Northwestern: "I don't think people come here looking for a religion. What they come for is an experience that will give meaning and substance to their lives. You don't have to believe or profess anything to be a follower of Baba. We don't become Hindus. People get whatever it is they get from Baba, and their lives are changed...
...given the Marxist left renewed prestige and influence for the first time in 30 years. A number of industrialists had been kidnapped and ransomed for salary raises and other benefits for the workers. Since July 1974, the ERP had maintained a very active rural guerrilla front in the northwestern province of Tucuman, and with their influence on peasants and workers had caused the armed forces increasing anxiety...
...types of unemployment that they require very different remedies." Other witnesses advanced special ideas. Reginald Jones, chairman of General Electric Co., commented that tax incentives to industry would go a long way toward cutting unemployment by encouraging businessmen to invest in job-creating expansion. Said Economist Robert Eisner of Northwestern University: "If you want to create more jobs, cut the payroll tax"-i.e., the Social Security tax. Since an employer pays part of the tax as a fixed percentage of each worker's wage, a reduction would allow him to put a new worker on the payroll...