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...Pinch. To the camponês, no price is too steep to escape the misery of his own backward land, where full-time jobs are scarce and wage scales a fraction of those in France. Since 1959, nearly 150,000 peasants have emigrated to France-most of them illegally. The majority live in squalor in such growing slum areas as the Melun shantytown on the outskirts of Paris. Faithfully, they send large parts of their paychecks home: last year their remittances added nearly $40 million to Dictator Antonio Salazar's economy...
...Pinch & Price. The shortage is acute simply because silver has become an increasingly important commodity. It is in rising demand in industry for use in making silverware, jewelry, missile parts and, most important, silver halide camera film. At the same time, the fast growth of retail trade, notably in the $3.5 billion-a-year vending machine industry, has brought an unprecedented demand for coins. U.S. mints have tripled their output since 1962, but they cannot meet demand. Everybody feels the pinch: Las Vegas gambling operators have reluctantly substituted plastic chips for shining stacks of silver dollars; bankers in several cities...
Most U.S. civil rights organizations are feeling a financial pinch-largely because donors let down after passage of the civil rights bill while operating budgets keep rising. The civil rights balance sheet, according to leaders of the five largest organizations: > The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (S.N.C.C.) is currently so low on cash that it has cut all salaries in half (even those of $10-a-week workers in Mississippi). Officials insist that the problem is an annual one, caused in part by the fact that potential contributors are still paying Christmas bills. A victim of growing pains as much...
...Francisco sculptor who prefers working in natural-finished wood. He painted the upper reaches of his attenuated Composite Mythology green to harmonize its grain. Hardly shocking when compared with Brancusi, the slender shape looks at once like ephemeral femurs knocking on a knee joint and a pinch-waisted dancer on toe point...
...artery had become blocked, possibly by fatty deposits, under the shoul der, where muscle and bone crowd it. Ford's well-developed muscles and his pitching profession aggravated the block: every time he threw a pitch, his muscles and bones would pinch the artery, constricting the vessel even as it was straining to allow blood to pass through. The most promising therapy would be removal of the sympathetic nerves that control the contraction of smooth muscle in the arterial walls...