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...Omaha donned hip boots and waded manfully out into the icy currents of the Missouri River. His purpose: to get a firsthand look at the hundreds of tons of offal that Omaha's $700 million-a-year packinghouse industry dumps into the river each day. Besides making his stomach-turning inspection tour, the mayor recently called a special $6.2 million bond election for May 10 to finance, among other projects, a sorely needed sewage-treatment system to help clean up the polluted river...
...million tons a year-will be needed to help the subcontinent's masses fend off starvation. Indians should also be educated to eat new foods, of course, but the education must be gradual. The problem is not just one of stubbornness: doctors know that a hunger-weakened stomach often simply refuses to accept unfamiliar food...
...past curses Gareth: it holds memories of a girl who loved him and whom he loved, but he could not get his peasant soul to stand upright and ask for her hand from her senator father, and she married someone else. Gareth's present, equally hard to stomach, is his own storekeeper father, for whom he works rather like an indentured servant. "Old Screwballs," as Gareth refers to him, is clench-lipped, word-shy, and sclerotically set in his ways. An evening with him is an unaltering ritual of despair: one cup of tea (never two), a game...
Despite an illegal fencer and an upset stomach, Harvard's varsity swordsmen crushed Holy Cross yesterday for the second time this year...
After beating Richard Floyran, 5-3. Harvard junior Brian Keidan had to for-felt his two remaining epee bouts because of an upset stomach. The epee team won anyway, 5-4, as Steve Shea won two bouts. Harvard's Ed Platt lost one, but clipped Don Clecak, 5-2, and Floryan...