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...colleges and shouldn't be at Harvard. Women's Liberation explains how social roles have prescribed women's behavior, not vice versa. Dean Peterson does not even pretend that Harvard and Radcliffe are separate but equal, just separate and different. He wants to maintain the 4-to-1 ration not because they are getting an equal education elsewhere but because they can be better kept in their place elsewhere...
...comfortable cushioning of the President has a special justification in Nixon's case. He tires easily, and is worried enough about his low threshold of exhaustion to have seen his doctor. So his aides ration his time and husband his energy. "We've got to watch out for the President," Haldeman explains. Nixon's rhythms of work are carefully plotted, and an elaborate machinery processes communications into the White House. Into the offices of deputies and assistants on the West Wing main floor, in the White House basement and in the nearby gray stone Executive Office Building pour reports from...
Communist Cells. Though the official campaign lasted only a month, the 54-year-old widow toured 120 constituencies and addressed 250 rallies. At every stop, she denounced Senanayake and his United National Party for cutting every citizen's weekly free-rice ration from four to two pounds, for boosting food prices 500%, for trebling unemployment and for causing a 16% increase in the cost of living over the past two years...
...face of that barrage, Senanayake's own figures proved less appealing. By halving the free-rice ration and more than doubling domestic rice production since 1965, he was able to reduce rice imports to less than half of what they had been, thereby saving precious foreign exchange. With a national budget of $500 million, an impressive $90 million goes to maintain free education right through the university level. Statistics aside, Senanayake noted that "her ladyship" and her Freedom Party had formed a United Front coalition with the Trotskyite Lanka Sama Samaja Party and the pro-Moscow Communist Party...
...trains simply grind to a halt. But the gesture is both too late and too early. An airborne invasion is stopped at Arnhem, and Allied forces drive past The Netherlands into Germany. Crippled by their lack of transportation, the Dutch freeze and starve. In January 1945, the food ration is down to 500 calories a day; families eat tulip bulbs and "roof rabbit" -cats and dogs. Bread on the black market is $27 a loaf. Abandoned houses are torn up for firewood. Not until just before the German surrender do Allied food drops begin...