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...wine. All three enjoyed life more (one to the age of 99) and became easier to get along with. "Ever since seeing this," said Dr. Dock, "I have felt that what is needed in retreats for ailing or aged people, and even in city hospitals, is a regular alcohol ration...
...more money, hjowever. Graders in courses without sections must be encouraged to conceive of their role in more generous terms than they have in the past. They must do more than record paper and exam grades; in short, must be willing to talk to students. Given a ration of about one grader for every 25 or so students, more papers could be assigned. Before writing each paper, students would be urged to visit a grader to discuss their proposed topics...
...Shanghai last week the rice ration again was slashed-from an average 22 Ibs. per month to 17.6 Ibs. Vegetables were rare, and fish was hard to find; no meat has been distributed since the Chinese New Year last February. It has been a harsh, cruel year, and another like it seems in prospect. Best estimates are that grain production this year will reach no more than 180 million tons, 40 million tons short of the target, and actually less than the harvest in 1957 when there were 60 to 70 million fewer mouths to feed...
...land, raise chickens and pigs privately in addition to their work in the production brigades, and sell their produce in the towns and keep the profits. This has promoted a black market in edibles that flow to special luxury restaurants, where highly paid government officials can dine without ration cards. But the limited "free market" produces its own social problems; it not only encourages conspicuous luxury buying by a privileged few in full view of the hungry masses, but also puts money in the hands of peasants who can find nothing to spend...
...utterly necessary to preserve the very life of his dismal satrapy. For seldom had history witnessed so great an exodus as had been flowing Westward in great clotted spurts. "You are sharing in the Great Socialist Experiment," Ulbricht cried to his people in 1949, as he cut their food ration and trimmed away their liberties. Far from sharing Ulbricht's enthusiasm, almost 3,500,000 East Germans-no less than 20% of the post-World War II population-fled to the West in the eleven years that followed. In the first eleven days of August 1961 alone...