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With hundreds of thousands of Long Islanders dependent on it, the Long Island could not be scrapped. But in bringing its stepchild into court, the Pennsy apparently hoped to be permitted to abandon some of its poorest-paying routes to busses and subways, concentrate on making money where its traffic is heaviest, and get the fares boosted once again...
...Knife (by Clifford Odets; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is Odets' first play in seven years, and probably his poorest ever. A kind of savagely spluttering memoir of Hollywood, where Odets has spent most of those seven years, it is a lament for crushed ideals and identities, a screeching indictment of vicious methods and heartless men. Its anger is real; everything else about it is contrived...
...captured guerrillas were "better fed and housed than the refugees." Even so, she found them "a miserable-looking lot wearing broken shoes and remnants of worn-out uniforms, Yugoslav, British or Greek. The prisoners looked like the poorest and stupidest of peasants with nothing to hope for and nothing to lose under any social system...
Human beings, however, are not fruit flies. Human increase, either among families or among nations, has no simple connection with the available food. High-income families, which get all the food they want, usually have fewer children than the poorest of the poor. The same is often (though not always) true of nations. Sweden, probably the best-fed nation in the world, has one of the lowest birth rates, only 15 per 1,000. Argentina, a notably well-fed nation, has a lower birth rate (21 per 1,000) than hungry Chile next door...
...little neck. I asked the man how much, and he said $200. I took pity on him. I told him to go back to the Piazza and get his ring's worth from some rich American. I told him that we were just youth hostelers, and thus among the poorest of the poor. He asked how much we had, and I said, thinking this would get rid of him at last, that between...