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...walked through the village. Hooligans tore his cottage apart. By the summer of 1961, he had had enough. He fled to a stony, wave-swept reef seven miles offshore known as Les Ecrehous (the Rocky Islets). On his barren refuge, no larger than a football field, he learned to subsist on lobster, crab and boiled sea lettuce, plus gifts brought by curiosity- seeking tourists. "Only by going away could I clear my name," he would tell them. "I was sure the terrible attacks would continue and my innocence would be recognized...
...show some economic headway. With a $50 billion gross national product, India has begun producing all manner of sophisticated materials, from complex computers to nuclear reactors and jet aircraft. But the distance it has come is only measurable by the distance left to go. Some 200 million people still subsist on 150 a day; more than half of the 10 million government workers earn less than $25 a month. As a Calcutta industrialist put it: "The refugees have descended on our hopes like a swarm of locusts on a good crop...
...George Silver, told similar tales of woe. Each of them was laid off after more than three decades of steady work when Michigan Tool's parent company, ExCellO Corp., decided to move the Detroit operation to North Carolina. The men were not invited to relocate. Now they subsist on unemployment checks...
...getting involved in social action return with new information and contribute to the E4A information resources. The information clearinghouse-while it is far from being complete and perfectly organized-does seem to fill a need that students are increasingly feeling, that of help-ing to find ways to subsist while they are engaged in social action. While unable to keep running tabs on specific job openings, E4A does have a fairly extensive file on organizations where there are often volunteer or paying job possibilities. The responsibility for making contacts belongs to the student. Often meeting and talking with people...
...distressed to read of the efforts of the Foundation to Improve Television to limit the content, through Federal court action, of programs seen on television before 10 p. m. Like all sincere efforts to protect others through censorship, the supporters of the Foundation would make all persons subsist on the fare of what is thought safe for those to be protected (they single out children; others single out the mentally ill or the potentially dangerous). Whether such protective efforts are directed toward violence. toward erotic materials, toward satiric portrayals of the church or the government or whatever, these efforts augur...