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...beer tapped at both ends, with New York and Philadelphia drawing off the state's talent, energy and brains. The residue is a flat, zingless brew that satisfies no one. Among the dregs is higher education -a field in which rich New Jersey has the poorest showing of effort among all the 50 states...
...Food for Freedom, U.S. agricultural products would no longer be sold for "Mickey Mouse money," as Farm Bureau staffers call the soft currencies the U.S. takes in counterpart-fund payments for its food. Instead, the Government would buy food for foreign countries, give away 20% to the neediest and poorest nations, and distribute the remainder on credit to be paid off in dollars. His program, said Shuman, would eventually eliminate money spent on Food for Peace as well as the annual $3 billion subsidy doled out to farmers...
...moved medical, nursing and welfare personnel out into the countryside so that the poorest sugar-cane workers' children would get the same medical and dental examinations as city youngsters. Now there are clinics for pregnant women and for well babies-along with proper care for the sick. Where TB patients once languished for lack of treatment in a sanatorium, health workers now give out supplies of isoniazid to be taken at home, and then they check to make sure the pills are really taken...
...disgust with the universe while sitting in ashcans, as do the characters of Samuel Beckett. Nor, Composer Gian Carlo Menotti has pointed out, do they have faces half a block wide, as they do on movie screens. In short, the complaint that an art form is unrealistic is the poorest and squarest of arguments...
...craggy coast of Brittany juts into the Atlantic like the head of a hungry snapping turtle. Ragged with reefs and studded with wind-worn, prehistoric monuments, it is one of France's poorest but most picturesque regions. Even the names are striking: Brest and Quimper, Kernascléden and Morbihan-echoes of the Celtic invasion from Wales that settled the giant peninsula about 500 A.D. Life is hard and poor, and even the tourist trade is seasonal at best, for tourists come only when the wet, ragged winds from the Channel let up in the summer, and a pale...