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...Sale. In the midst of a Cadillac-plated prosperity in Tokyo, only the efforts of a group of charities ranging from the United Nations International Children's Fund and Catholic and Protestant groups to Japan's own Association of Pinball Machine Manufacturers have been able to stave off actual starvation in Hokkaido. Even though the U.S. Air Force last week flew in three planeloads of food. Hokkaido's farmers face both hunger and bankruptcy. "We've sold even the gold from our teeth," one farmer told TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast. "The only thing...
...Globe said: "Never before in a big game has the winning team played the better football in every department of the game or the loser been so helpless to stave off an overwhelming defeat. It was the worst beating the Blue ever has experienced at Harvard's hands and it was a beating which was administered with an exhibition of superior play that was simply overwhelming...
...only made a tidy fortune (which is now invested in real estate and Series E Government bonds); he soon made a name for himself as a leading spokesman for the Young Turks who were urging sweeping reforms on the old, bold exchange in a last-ditch fight to stave off SEC regulation. The insurgents triumphed, transforming the exchange from a private club run for the benefit of its members into the public utility that serves as the major source of U.S. venture capital. After Old Guard President Richard Whitney was convicted of embezzling exchange members' and customers' funds...
Despite the frustrations, Ambassador Johnson is convinced that the talks have their value; e.g., 31 Americans have been released since last August, and the treatment of the ten still held in China has reportedly shown "very definite improvement." "I believe," adds Johnson, "that the talks may have helped stave off a shooting war in the Formosa Straits. And that, to me, is well worth the trouble of coming down to Geneva all the time, and the cost" (so far: $24,000). Johnson does not hide his respect for Wang's ability as a negotiator. "We may go at each...
...Yours are to stave off more money, aren't they...