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...white men Duff faces as an unskilled worker in the South subsist, vampire-like, on his dignity. They leave his buddies on the railroad gang little choice but to act our a dirty joke for them down in Shanty-own. They leave his father to fight a bottle in a hotel room, under the care of a younger woman whose love only reinforces his self-contempt...
...slight discrepancy between the $1.30 per person charged for dinner, and the 50 cents being sent to Miss. Certainly some of the money goes to pay help, but I doubt that it is 2/3. Admittedly, Radcliffe food is not of the highest quality--but do we really subsist on 50 cents worth? Many students will go out to dinner tonight and pay at least $1.00. If we are interested in contributing money to Mississippi. It seems only reasonable that we send as much as we "sacrifice." Jean Strouse...
...Bare Subsistence. Kitchens may be clean, but they are also bare. The people still subsist on cabbage and rice, although good harvests have ended the near famine of the early '60s. Sugar and wheat are still rationed, but ice cream and cakes are plentiful and cheap, and the stalls at the central markets are banked high with ornamental heaps of vegetables, meat, tiny eggs and fish. "China has not forgotten how to eat," one tourist was told by his guide. Nor has it forgotten how to cook-for those who can pay for it. The once-great cuisine...
...Nazareth has hardly changed since the days when the young Christ walked its streets-the hard-pressed Nazarenes subsist, as their forebears did, by tending tiny shops or grazing sheep on the windswept hills. But above the Biblical old town sits a new Nazareth, settled by 8,000 Jews who take their economic lessons from the Book of Progress. The new town boasts a textile mill, chocolate-processing plant, 750-seat movie theater and 48-store shopping center. Being built is an 80-unit housing development whose windows overlook Mount Tabor, the site of Christ's Transfiguration, and nearby...
Torjus "Gunnysack" Johnson, 66, was not so sure he wanted electricity. Gunnysack and his wife, Mamie, subsist on social security money, and they did not know if they could afford the $10-a-month minimum charge for electricity. Besides, says Mamie Johnson, 79, "I'd rather have spent the money for a game license. I do some fishing, but I'd like to get me a deer this fall, and a bear. I'd sure like to get the juice from a fat bear. Makes a fine oil for salad." Nevertheless, the Johnsons have signed...