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...dirt-floored hut-its walls made of flattened tin cans, scrap wood and cardboard cartons. German, 30, earns 25 soles (93?) a day in a pottery plant; the others ragpick or beg for scraps at the back doors of restaurants. Once each day Aurelia brews a thin stew from the choicest tidbits. Says Aurelia, "We are not starving here." Every dictator who ever looted a Latin American treasury has left behind his small quota of conspicuous public housing works, which barely scratches the surface. Last February in Mexico City, the government inaugurated a much more ambitious $2,560,000 social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: Slums in the Sun | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

Fricker was drafted in 1939 as a civilian cook to instruct German mess sergeants in the culinary arts. He was sent to Africa, where he concocted a special stew for Rommel, whom he addressed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROMMEL'S FORMER MESS SERGEANT TAKES OVER AS CHEF IN STILLMAN | 2/27/1962 | See Source »

...demand a student's time yet withhold credit toward the degree and do not provide course reduction cannot expect very much of his commitment. But still more serious consequences are attached to these programs. In English, which has just tossed all its Group III concentrators into the non-credit stew, they are particularly severe. The Department, for example, has promised to continue "individual" tutorial for all Juniors. Yet in the past the practice of many non-credit tutors has been to lump individual tutees together in groups and to teach them simultaneously. Since it is evident that the best tutors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutorial and the English Department | 2/21/1962 | See Source »

...easy 'nough to titter w'en de stew is smokin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: He That Hath a Trade | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...most frustrated member of the Kennedy Cabinet is Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall. Since entering office, Udall has formulated a sweeping new conservation and national parks program. But his ideas have received no more than polite attention at the White House, and Stew is stewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Capital Notes: Jan. 19, 1962 | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

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