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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Extended in a House-Senate compromise the Public Law 480 authority ($1.5 billion a year) to sell Government-owned surplus farm products abroad (often for soft currencies) for another two years. Authorized but not required: a start on an Administration-opposed food-stamp scheme for delivering $500 million worth of surplus to the U.S. needy...
Profit & Pride. More and more white builders, sensing the demand for decent, moderate-priced Negro housing, have taken the plunge into the suburban market. It has its special hazards; in some areas, white building inspectors and utility companies drag their feet when Negro tracts open. Negro mortgage money is often a stiff 1% or 2% more than for whites (it is easier to get loans for prospering Negroes in the Deep South than it is in Northern states). But mortgage companies are beginning to realize that steadily employed Negroes are a good risk. Chicago's Park Terrace even...
...nagas (dragon spirits who inhabit rivers), but the prevalent Lao tian faith is Buddhism, with its strong emphasis on harming no living creature. Some medical men attribute the lack of aggressiveness among Laotians to disease rather than Buddhism or innate gentleness. Malaria, yaws, gonorrhea and kwashiorkor (an often fatal protein deficiency) are common; an estimated 50% of Laotian children die in childbirth or infancy. But to all disasters of body or soul, pious Laotians murmur in the words of one of their poets: "For our sins committed in an other world we are in these days suffer ing grievous punishment...
...blinked at the sight of Bill Luders' 39-ft. Storm: she was carrying no boom and no mainsail. But when the fleet made it back to Stamford, Luders had sailed off with the race. Storm's win dramatized the fact that in distance racing these days, victory often goes not to the fastest but to the designer who gets the mostest out of The Rule-the complex, 27-page system of handicapping spelled out in detail in 1934 by the Cruising Club of America to even up boats of various shapes, sizes and styles...
Saturday is healing for the whole week. "The telephone is silent. I can think, read, study, walk, or do nothing. It is an oasis of quiet. When night falls, I go back to the wonderful nerve-racking Broadway game. Often I make my best contribution of the week then and there to the grisly literary surgery that goes on and on until opening night. My producer one Saturday night said to me, 'I don't envy you your religion, but I envy you your Sabbath...