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			      message in a bottle
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        ELECMUZE.SND   Some electronic music.

          TWEETY.SND   A music critic.

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			     ... just a castaway
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      "... and the general economic recession and scarcity of
      money which marked the sixties.  These same conditions had
      brought ruin to many other small farmers in all parts of
      [1. ???] and unemployment to farm laborers, creating a broad
      rural economic crisis by the time of [2. ????]." [*]

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     "In [3. ???] the situation was particularly desperate,
     owing to the loss of the eastern revenues and the expenses
     of the eastern wars, which had made money scarce and probably
     caused unemployment (as a result a Jewish colony at [4. ???]
     was prevented from sending money to Jerusalem)." [**]

     DOES this sound like America today?

     Actually it's:
     [1. ???] = Italy
     [2. ???] = Cicero's consulship
     [3. ???] = The year that the above occured was 63 (B.C.); and
     [4. ???] = the location was Italy under the Romans.

     [*] page 230 "CICERO the ascending years"
		   by Thomas N. Mitchell
		   (Yale University; New Haven, CT; 1979)

     [**] page 60 of  "CICERO a portrait"
                       by Elizabeth Rawson
		  (Cornell University Press; Ithaca, NY; 1975)

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     "I thought I was going to have some farm relief to report to
      you by this day.  But the commissions are just gathering
      data.  They won't take the farmer's word for it that he is
      poor.  They hire men to find out how poor he is.  If they
      took all the money they spend on finding out how poor he is,
      and give it to the farmers, he wouldn't need any more relief."
	 from page 32
       'WILL ROGERS wise and witty sayings of a great American Humorist'
       (Hallmark edition; Oklahoma; 1969)
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