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...called a huge press conference, took pointed notice of the spate of refugees. "There seems to be a growing panic in the Soviet zone," declared the doughty old Chancellor, suggesting that West Germany might soon offer the hapless East German people 5,000 tons of butter to raise their ration. "The latest in a series of Western provocations," sputtered East Berlin's Neues Deutschland...
Chicha & Coco. "We treat our colonos very well. They have no cause for complaint," says Luna's foreman. "If they want it," he says, "we even give them a daily ration of chicha and coca." Chicha is a crude corn whisky; coca is a mild narcotic leaf that deadens pain and kills hunger. Luna lets his peasants graze a limited number of livestock free (most hacendados charge one head for ten as a grazing fee). He also allots each family two acres of cropland on which to grow food-potatoes and corn, and in season turnips and cabbage...
...small band in 1955, he began to build a local following. Last fall he was persuaded to try his luck out of town. This year Hirt expects to clear more than $200,000-a change from his lean eating days that astounds him (his fair-weather breakfast ration: a dozen eggs). "I'm really not doing anything different," says Al Hirt. But he also admits: "I've called off the elopement drills for my daughters...
...outflow of U.S. gold, President Kennedy banned the future sale of all non-U.S.-made goods in overseas military exchanges, including Scotch whisky. On Formosa, preparing for the visit of Vice President Lyndon Johnson, U.S. brass were vexed to find that they could not supply the standard L.B.J. ration of Cutty Sark. They flew some in from the nearest source-Hong Kong...
Reno residents went on voluntary water ration. Lake Tahoe was being tapped for the first time, and Governor Grant Sawyer declared: "Our whole state is a disaster area...