Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were told? No exhibition, now or in the near future, is likely to satisfy that curiosity better than "Art Nouveau: Belgium/France," which opened last week at the Art Institute of Chicago. Organized by both the Art Institute and the Institute for the Arts at Houston's Rice University (where it was shown last spring), it is a collective effort of numerous curators, headed by Yvonne Brunhammer from the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. It contains more than 700 items by scores of artists-a brilliant array of objects, most of which have never been on display...
...accepts Pyongyang's demarcation proposal. At week's end, Frudden was holding out for guarantees of safety for U.N.C. personnel before doing so. But both sides also agreed to hold tentative lower-level talks on the idea. Uneasy peace seemed about to resettle over the rice fields and barbed wire...
...General Pedro Arrupe said that if each U.S. Catholic fasted for one meal a week, the money saved could buy $2.5 billion worth of food for the needy each year. (By such fasting over the past year, U.S. Catholics had already saved enough money to buy a shipload of rice, which they sent to Bangladesh during the congress.) Brazil's activist Archbishop Helder Camara called the world's unequal distribution of wealth "the greatest scandal of the century." Bishop James Rausch, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference, called on the U.S. to send food abroad...
...side were the old-line executives of the Summa Corp., to which Hughes had transferred most of his holdings after selling the Hughes Tool Co. in 1972. On the other was William Rice Lummis, 47, a Houston attorney, who is Hughes' cousin. He is the representative of a small handful of Hughes' heirs, most of whom had not even seen the eccentric recluse for 38 years prior to his death...
ASIA, on the other hand, has seen the return of the monsoons in much of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, which is moving toward self-sufficiency in food production. Bumper rice crops are expected in Thailand and Taiwan this year...