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Ricard sustained himself and his employees during the war by introducing rice culture to France. He drained 2,100 acres of the Camargue. a brackish swamp west of Marseille, pumped in fresh water, raised crops that led to an industry that has made France self-sufficient in rice. At war's end Ricard returned to pastis making. As Frenchmen flocked to the Riviera for sun and fun, they picked up the pastis habit, demanded what Ricard calls his "sunshine in a bottle" when they got home. With rising orders from all of France, Ricard's production went from...
...entire year, President Diosdado Macapagal, 55, the Liberal Party's choice for reelection, had swapped bombas (personal attacks) with the Nationalist Party challenger, Senate President Ferdinand Marcos, 48. In addition to bombas, Macapagal and Marcos spent $8,000,000, a princely sum in Filipino politics, to swamp the country with a deluge of political pamphlets, placards, and tear-jerking biographical movies. But last week, as 8,000,000 Filipinos went to the polls, the election turned out to be not close at all. Marcos won in a walkaway, with a margin of more than 630,000 votes...
...Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra baptized itself Friday night in a sensuous swamp--Strauss' Don Juan, Berg's Violin Concerto, and Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique--and emerged after two hours smelling very sweet...
With a few such private projects leading the way, the Federal Government is also getting into the act by financing free legal services in 19 cities. The need is obvious. In Chicago, where the Government's effort is still mired in a bureaucratic swamp, the bar-run Legal Aid Bureau readily admits: "We only serve half the people who need our services." In Washington, however, the mainly Government-financed Neighborhood Legal Service Project has six thriving neighborhood centers serving 180,000 people. Of all its cases so far, 30.7% involve housing, 10.6% consumer rights, 8% welfare, 7.3% adult criminal...
Penn took second, third, fourth, fifth and eighth to swamp the freshmen. Doug Hardin won in for the Yardlings...