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...yuan or $10 a month for a peasant on a commune-an amount that varies by a system of "work points" awarded according to the work he does, his political zeal, and the harvest. The upper range is around $100 a month for a young army general or experienced technician. But rents are low, from $1 to $3 for a typical one-or two-room apartment. Vegetables in season cost only 1½? to 2? per lb., rice 7? per lb., and meat from 20? to 40? per lb. Milk is higher, at 10? a quart, and so are eggs...
...about five minutes, the machine does a job that would take a technician several hours. It also sketches out the area of the body involved and plots the paths the radiation will take to reach the affected organ. "It would be impossible for the human mind to perform the same task," says Dr. Edward Sternick, the radiation physicist who helped design the program...
...during the lengthy separation. He thinks that they would have broken up eventually anyway, and that the trial merely hastened matters. In any event, intimate companionship was a problem for him. Spouses stayed overnight with married jurors on weekends. Mrs. John Baer, wife of the 61-year-old electrical technician who was considered the most dutiful juror, called her visits to the Ambassador Hotel a "second honeymoon." But unmarried jurors were not officially allowed any company, and McBride had the authorities peering over his shoulder. "One time down at the pool," he recalled, "I met this real cute, real friendly...
Rubber Chicken. A social clique formed around the jury's foreman, Herman Tubick, 58, an undertaker. Dubbed "Herman's kids," the group included Jean Roseland; Larry Sheely, 25, a telephone repairman; Anlee Sisto, 48, a school-district electronics technician; Bob Douglass, 35, an alternate juror; and Mrs. Hines, nicknamed "Giggle-bottom" because of her enthusiastic response to gags...
...trying to decide what color to paint his house. He stood there stooped, red-faced and wrinkled from a not very eventful life: a poor, fatherless adolescence; ten restless years as a chiropractor, a calling that he gave up because the hours were too long; 27 years as a technician for Mobil Oil, interrupted by frequent golf and fishing trips; the death, on his retirement, of his wife; and then a six-month Grand Tour, followed by his return to Santa Barbara, where he slowly learned to cook his own meals and live alone...