Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PAPA HEMINGWAY, by A. E. Hotchner. Writing with candor and affection, an old friend gives a lively account of the most famous literary man of his generation...
GAUGUIN IN THE SOUTH SEAS, by Bengt Danielsson. In a levelheaded account of Gauguin's exile years in Tahiti and the neighboring Marquesas, Anthropologist Danielsson perceives the man without debasing the artist...
...Your cover piece on confessions was an able and informative account of a tormentingly difficult problem. You seem, however, to make one doubtful assumption: that it is up to the Supreme Court alone to solve the problem. The justices have the responsibility to determine what the Constitution means by the due process of law it guarantees to criminal suspects. But some would think it an unhappy role for the court to read out of that vague constitutional phrase a detailed code of criminal procedure regulating every police practice. That is what the court has apparently been asked...
Paradoxically, it is the neediest who are helped least by the welfare state. The majority of the poor reap no benefits from social security, unemployment insurance, or the right to unionize. Farm subsidies mostly enrich the prosperous; the poorest farmers, with 40% of the working spreads in the U.S., account for a scant 7% of farm income...
...Powell Henchman Livingston Wingate, originally hoped to get $118 million in federal, city and private funds for an immense three-year program. So far, it has received barely $10 million-including $3,456,096 in OEO money-and even that turned out to be more than it could account for. Close to $400,000 could not be traced, and Shriver's OEO turned off the federal spigot for five weeks while HARYOU launched an audit under the supervision-naturally-of Livingston Wingate. As a result, North America's most crowded Negro slum has been largely deprived...