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...remember automobiles. They dwindled. At first the price of gasoline climbed-way up. Finally only the well-to-do drove, and that was too clear an indication that they were filthy rich, so any automobile that dared show itself on a city street was overturned and burned. Rationing was introduced to "equalize sacrifice," but every three months the ration was reduced. The cars just vanished and became part of the metal resource...
...candidates for sterilization. For such civil servants, or for anybody who was being pressured into submitting to sterilization himself, it was usually possible to hire a stand-in for about 200 rupees ($22). For those not in government service, all sorts of privileges-such as licenses for guns, shops, ration cards-were denied unless the applicant could produce a sterilization certificate...
...meal plan, according to Jerry Gambel, Catering Manager. Sophomores and juniors sign up for a board contract, while only a few seniors go the contract route. Rumor has it the only complaints have been from dining hall checkers, who must deal with hungry jocks who demand more than their ration...
...years the residents have been voting down bond issues that would have supplemented the reservoirs -partly on the theory that limiting water would be one way to restrict unwanted growth. But last week the water supply was so low that county officials ordered a tough system of enforced rationing. Depending upon the number of residents in a home, each individual will be limited to between 32 and 49 gallons a day. That is roughly enough water to flush a toilet seven times or take a five-minute shower. The cost, moreover, will nearly triple, from...
Victor Valles Solan, too, feels passionately about his children. He has five of them, and in Cuba, where he once ran a small steel foundry, he began to feel that they were becoming hostages to the fortunes of the state. "We were allowed a ration of only one liter of fresh milk every other day," says Valles, 46, "but what is more important is that every day the children learned Communist doctrine in the schools, and going to church was never talked about. I realize that I am going to the United States with many illusions, but for me your...