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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schimmel's appointment, announced in June, brings the number of women holding full professorships at Harvard to two. She will assume a chair donated by the late A. K. Ozai Durrani, a Pakistani chiefly known as the inventor of Minute Rice...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: While You Were Away... A Summer Passed Through Harvard | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...both relieved and delighted that Correspondent Robert Anson has been released after 21 days as a captive of anti-government forces in Cambodia. Fifteen pounds lighter, thanks to the largely rice diet, but none the worse for wear, Anson arrived early last week in Phnom-Penh, where he was soon reunited with his wife Diane. From there, the couple flew to Saigon for a festive gathering with members of the Saigon bureau and Time-Life News Service Chief Murray Gart, who flew in from Europe via Tashkent. Gart arrived with champagne, a tin of caviar and a bottle of vodka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Sep. 7, 1970 | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

...agriculture. Fully 70% of North Viet Nam's agricultural work force is female, a reflection of the losses the country has suffered in nine years of war with the French and another nine years of fighting for control of South Viet Nam. The new strains of "miracle rice" that have brought self-sufficiency in food supply to many other Asian nations (TIME, July 13) have failed to take hold in North Viet Nam, partly because workers assigned to collective farms are unwilling to give the new strains the intensive care they require...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: How Hanoi Hangs On | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

Party planners in Hanoi regularly criticize North Vietnamese farmers for "leisurely ways of working," but that is only part of the problem. The Japanese farmer, who has all sorts of machinery and chemicals at hand, turns out a quintal (about 220 Ibs.) of rice in less than two hours; in North Viet Nam, where even hand tools are in short supply, it takes 64 to 80 hours. Just to meet the minimum needs of its people. Hanoi must import 800,000 tons of rice and wheat flour a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: How Hanoi Hangs On | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

...semantics. The U.S. pilots were not providing "air support" to the Cambodians, Laird said. They were only "interdicting" supplies headed for South Viet Nam. But in a private conversation, an Air Force officer was more direct. "Hell," he said, "if you see one V.C. carrying a bag of rice or some ammunition, that calls for interdiction no matter how close he is standing to Cambodian troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indochina: Back to Guerrilla Warfare | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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