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...Government teaching collective bargaining procedures to union leaders in Turkey. Even at the darkest moments, he is able to retain a sense of humor. When asked last week what would happen when the negotiators reached a midnight deadline that Mayor Beame had set, he answered, "I turn into a pumpkin, what else...
Hiss attracted national attention in the early 1950s as a result of the "pumpkin Papers Case"--prosecuted by Congressman Richard M. Nixon--which ended in his conviction for perjury before the House Unamerican Activities Committee. Hiss would have been tried for espionage for the Soviet Union had the statute of limitations not run out. A wide body of public opinion still maintains his innocence...
Food riots have become commonplace in vast sections of Bangladesh and India. "In the worst-affected areas, gruel kitchens have been opened that provide a watery mess of broken wheat, fragments of pumpkin and lentils," reports TIME New Delhi Correspondent James Shepherd. "Queues of sev eral hundred emaciated people at each kitchen get what is often no more than a quarter-pound of the gruel, and sometimes that is shared among six people. In one village, a shame faced elder confessed that Hindus were violating the ban on eating cows and were consuming dead cattle and buffaloes. 'What else...
...lonely figure could not stay away from the darkened set. "I sneaked back," she recalls, "to the place where I had spent four years of my life. I walked around, rubbed the couch where I had sat dozens of times and spotted that cookie jar shaped like a pumpkin. The stagehands keep it filled with real junk food - Oreos, Lorna Doones, the kind of crap that Wasp mothers keep on hand for kiddie snacks. Mary with her dia betes and me with my weight problems, we used to love to open that jar and just sniff the sugary smell...
Well, if all this achievement isn't to turn into a pumpkin, Harvard must come up with another pressure performance in the District I playoffs which begin tomorrow noon when the Crimson meets Providence...