Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only 1% of Yemen's population attended primary school-and 30% of this elite suffer from pellagra. Infant mortality up to two years of age runs 58%, one of the world's worst. In all Yemen there are only three hospitals, two high schools and a primitive military academy, but the six-man Yemenite Foreign Office used to concoct reports to the U.N. of totally imaginary hospitals and schools, including a College of Aviation...
Acting under instructions not to point out manager Edward A. Alpers '63 as the police asked them questions, members appeared to suffer from amnesia. "Gee, I'm sorry, officer, I can't remember who our leader is," said one. "This is a pretty disorganized group. I don't think we have a leader," said another...
Ernest Simmons, formerly chairman of the department of Slavic languages and literature at Columbia University, suffers from the biographer's occupational disease -a constitutional inability to leave out any detail, however trivial. But his book does build to considerable power. Using new source material, Simmons demolishes Writer Lidiya Avilova's claim, put forth in her book Chekhov in My Life, that she was the writer's secret lifelong passion. Chekhov's only love. Simmons insists, was Olga Knipper, one of the first of a long series of famous actresses (including Dame Sybil Thorndike. Dame Judith Anderson...
...favorable. Another shot in the arm could come from heavy auto sales when the new models reach the salesrooms. But from the record of performance and the signals being flashed by the indicators, it is clear that until some new element enters the picture, the economy will continue to suffer from a basic lack of drive...
Although slightly worried about the effect extra-curricular activities might have on studies, '66 takes a vastly different view from that of '65 at the same time last year. "Sure studies may suffer," said one Yardling, "but you have to do something more than grind." (He has joined three organizations and is thinking about more...