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...most readily surmounted. Japan uses classic Kabuki actors to speak for Bonanza's Cartwrights, although their services often cost as much as the purchase price of the tape. Subtitles come much cheaper, but audiences in the richer nations like Germany won't abide them, viewers in the poorer ones can't read them. Not that a lot does not get lost in the translations. In the original version of a Zane Grey Theater episode, the villain burst into a saloon, hammered his fist on the bar and growled: "Gimme a redeye!" The French version: "Donnez...
Ruin & Starvation. Haiti has always been poor. Now it is getting poorer. Per capita income averages $70 a year, per capita food averages 1,780 calories a day, and life expectancy is a bare 32 years−all three the lowest in the hemisphere. Illiteracy is 90%, and population density is 415 persons per square mileboth the highest of any Latin American nation...
Inspirational Leadership. Dr. Thurman gives even poorer marks to the church. By perpetuating the Southern pattern of separation, the church "lost the initiative to inspire" in a struggle that sorely needed inspirational leadership. "The right to act as a result of religious conviction has been forfeited and has to be reclaimed...
...bitter contrast, skyrocketing food costs leave the average citizen poorer than ever. Though the 1965 harvest well exceeds last year's, rice prices have risen by a third since January. Much of the profit is pocketed by Saigon's Chinese merchants, who callously corner the markets in scarce commodities. So rather than exporting rice this year, South Viet Nam has been forced to import fully 50,000 tons from...
...Kuwait's very prosperity has brought it some economic problems. The country is so saturated with imported autos, refrigerators, TV sets and other durable goods that sales have slumped for its 17,000 shopkeepers. Making this situation worse, a flood of job-seeking immigrants from other, poorer Arab lands has raised Kuwait's population by 46% since 1961. Last week, tightening its policy of Kuwait for the Kuwaitis, the government imposed stiff new jail sentences and fines for immigration violations and amended dismissal provisions of the civil service code to pave the way for an anticipated purge...