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...Seabrook recently voted this time in a binding referendum, to cut off the Public Service Company's water supply. PSC responded by getting a court injunction against the town's action, and has since been hounded by threats of violence from Seabrook housewives, who are already being forced to ration water...
...today, the Harvard-Radcliffe admissions committee mailed acceptance letters to the 1376 men and 819 women admitted to the Class of '82. Those numbers mean the College's male-female admission ration has shrunk to an all-time low of 1.68 to 1 as compared to 1.8 to 1 for the Class...
...scourge of Neuilly was born 58 years ago near Nantes. He went to Paris during World War II and was jailed briefly for ration-law violations and collaborationist activities, offenses for which he was later banned from holding office or owning any publication. Amnestied in 1952, he built an automotive magazine into a press empire that now embraces 27 publications. Hersant's purchase of Figaro, and in 1976, of France Soir (circ. 443,100), Paris' largest afternoon daily, doubled the size of his holdings. It has been widely reported that leading right-of-center politicians, including former Premier...
...five years since Rhodesia declared that it was officially at war, the army has changed greatly. In many respects, the struggle resembles a World War II campaign in an African setting. There are battered green Dakota aircraft, ration packs, small base camps of whitewashed canteens and dusty beer halls, tin-roofed headquarters rooms with map-covered walls and the whine of heavy trucks stripping their gears in the red clay sludge that passes for roads. Rhodesia's 9,000-man army is less than a U.S. Army division in strength, and its war is still mainly fought...
...bath soap and two or three light bulbs a year. But more of these precious items, as well as scarce fresh vegetables, chicken and eggs, can readily be obtained by anyone with an obliging relative in the commune supply department. Butchers have devised a simple means to bypass rationing to benefit their relatives and favorite customers. The scheme is based on the fact that each consumer is allowed to buy 20? worth of pork without ration coupons. In exchange for a length of hard-to-get cloth or a dozen eggs, however, the butcher will sell $2 worth of pork...