Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cross resumed night relief flights that had been interrupted two weeks ago when federal troops started to fire on its planes. Together with flights chartered by Caritas, the international Catholic relief organization, the Biafran airlift brought to starving Biafrans some 30 tons of food and med icine per night-still only a fraction of the 1,000 tons a day that are needed. At week's end negotiators who have been meeting for four weeks in Addis Ababa made marked progress in clearing the logjam holding up large-scale relief. Meeting with Emperor Haile Selassie, moderator of the talks...
...rural writer (Per Oscarsson) arrives in the city to become a journalist. There are various kinds of starvation, and he soon experiences them all. First he is deprived of recognition, then money, and at last of enough nourishment to endure...
...night spots, Club Tokyo and Night Tokyo, now cater to an all-female clientele with well-scrubbed young hosts in dark suits who are available for cosy chats and dancing at $2.22 per hour. The aim, explains Club Tokyo Manager Motoki Inoue, is "sex equality in this he-man's land." Nightly, merry widows in miniskirts and portly housewives in kimonos turn up where the boys are. Some come in for the evening from as far as Osaka on the 125-m.p.h. bullet train; nearly all are between 30 and 40 years old. A middle-aged maitre...
...Yourself Cost is still a problem. For a patient like Raatz, there is no predicting how often he will need AHF, or just how much. His expenses have run as high as $150 in a week, but for him and most other patients they average about that per month over the long run. Prices are expected to come down when the supply increases. The demand is there: U.S. hemophiliacs need the AHF from 1,000,000 pints of blood each year...
...working for a small European airline. He stopped over at Lisbon in May, and saw some Lockheed Constellations parked in a guarded portion of the airport there. "I knew what they were," he laughs, "In our business word gets around." Word had also reached him of the $1500 per trip salary for pilots ($1000 for flight engineers) and after a few inquiries, he joined the Biafran airlift as a flight engineer...