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...just about where it was in 1957 in industry and crop production. Even in 1957, supplies were just barely sufficient for needs, and since that time, at least 70 million more Chinese have been born-and must be fed, clothed, housed and educated. Peking has dug into its slender cash reserves to buy wheat from abroad at a total cost of $782 million...
...GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS by Muriel Spark. 176 pages. Knopf...
...crowd liked Lewis. But then came more speeches, some of them rather dull, and all of them overlong. People began to mill around, many even started to leave. But their attention was captured once again by a slender, low-toned speaker wearing a blue legionnaire-type cap. He was Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who was introduced as the "acknowledged leader" of the civil rights movement. Wilkins talked quietly of the necessity for passage of President Kennedy's bill. "The President's proposals," he said, "represent so moderate...
Obviously, no Negro can speak for all. No organization can represent all Negro aspirations. But in the late summer of 1963, as the revolution intensifies, if there is one Negro who can lay claim to the position of spokesman and worker for a Negro consensus, it is a slender, stoop-shouldered, sickly, dedicated, rebellious man named Roy Wilkins...
...ready warheads, more than 25,000 are "tactical"-designed for short-range (mostly under 30 miles) battlefield or defensive use. Many are tiny power-packages of less than a kiloton (equal to 1,000 tons of TNT) that could be sent on slender, supersonic missiles to wipe out a company, sink a ship or shoot down planes...