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...precise borders of poverty, the U.S. reckons that a man could have three adequate meals a day for 700 if he bought nothing but Government surplus foods. The minimum also includes a sparse allowance for rent, clothing and other necessities; in the case of a single farmer, who can obtain cheap food, the minimum is $1,080. The poverty line is $3,130 for an urban family of four, $2,200 for a farm family. Only 30% of America's 32 million poor are nonwhite-but that 30%, mostly Negro, represents half of the entire non-white population...
Along with his study of old masters, Matisse experimented with the uniques of Impressionism and with bright light and color harmonies of Seurat's "pointillism" (also called "divisionism," this theory of painting suggested that brighter secondary colors, such as green, could be obtain making a series of small patches of the primary colors--in the case of green they are blue and yellow--and allowing these colors to blend in the viewer's eye at a certain distance from the painting rather than mixing the pigments themselves...
American military police do patrol the compound and check the pass of each G.I. entering. Vietnamese girls who want to work in Disneyland must obtain a special entertainer's card and visit An Khe's clinic once a week for a medical examination by Vietnamese doctors and a U.S.-provided shot of a long-lasting penicillin-type drug to suppress disease. Forced to choose between morality and the morale of their men, the division's officers are clearly troubled by Disneyland. But, as one colonel explained, "We wanted to get the greatest good for our men with...
...evidence," such as a faked lie-detector test or fake lab reports that play on the gullible suspect's "mystical notions of the power of scientific crime detection." Above all, says O'Hara, the interrogator "must dominate his subject and overwhelm him with his inexorable will to obtain the truth...
...recent poll on the freshman proctor system revealed that about half the freshmen questioned were dissatisfied with the present system of counseling and felt they could not obtain satisfactory academic advice from either advisers or proctors. The results of the poll are not surprising. Proctors and advisers are usually involved in their work as law students, graduate students, or administrators, and they cannot be expected to be knowledgeable about all the areas in which freshmen need help. Since it seems unlikely that Harvard will organize a corps of full-time experts on the Harvard scene, the HUC's proposal...