Massive Relief Effort Prevents Large Scale Starvation in India
In New Delhi a sweeping relief operation halted a potential famine after two drought years affected 60 million in eastern India. U S aid along with Britain Holland and others funded food vaccination clothing and water projects. CARE and Peace Corps aided Bihar Delhi Bombay and other areas while officials worry about seeds and logistics later in the year.
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India
Bengal
Alan Berg
U.S
Chester Bowles
United States
Holland
Bihar
J. P. Narayan
Indira Gandhi
American Food For Peace
Care — Cooperative For American Relief
Bombay
U.S. Peace Corps
Rockefeller Foundation Grants Ballet Theater Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation gives 5500 dollars to the Ballet Theater Foundation to cover preliminary rehearsal expenses for a new ballet by Eliot Feld. Feld choreographs to Mahler song cycles with poems by Friedrich Ruckert. Feld’s prior piece Harbinger drew praise last May and the new ballet is set to premiere in the fall in New York.
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Ballet New York
Rockefeller Foundation
Ballet Theater Foundation
American Ballet Theater
Eliot Feld
Gustave Mahler
Friedrich Ruckert
Feld
Wevler
New York
Negro colleges cited as generally inferior to white institutions
Watts Hill Jr. told the Southern Regional Education Board the advisory commission’s report shows 33 of 104 historically Black colleges were not accredited as of December 1966, with 29 privately controlled. The panel urged support to upgrade these schools through stronger funding, broader curriculums and decentralized administration.
Hostesses Wear Paper Uniforms on Caribbean Flights
BOAC stewardesses will wear disposable paper mini dresses on Caribbean routes starting October. Short sleeves feature purple and cerise flowers and the outfits are discarded after use. A BOAC spokesman cites economy as the main reason and jokes about hemming with scissors. The piece also notes skis were adapted by Sweden in 1542.
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BOAC
British Overseas ‘Airways Corp
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