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Underlying and responsible for the graft, Richardson thinks, are apathy among the wealthy burghers and self-disrespect among individual politicians. "No longer an esteemed benefactor, and not yet a respected public servant, the politician, in the eyes of all too many citizens of Massachusetts, is a mere errand boy, remembered only when there is a ticket or a sidewalk to be fixed...
...Levin's bearded charm. Teacher Avis Fliss entices him with "her well-stacked bosom and behind like a hard head of cabbage." So does a shapely coed. But love comes thunderously during a chance encounter in an enchanted wood with Pauline Gilley, the susceptible wife of his benefactor...
...some, Section 1001(f) seemed legitimate; the United States government had endowed a generous loan and scholarship fund (up to $295,000,000 in four years), and stipulated that the grants were earmarked for students whose loyalties and beliefs generaly coincide with those of the benefactor. Others said that students--the academic community--should not be singled out as suspect and that the loyalty provisions were--in the words of Senator John F. Kennedy--"worse than futile." It did not prevent subversives from taking the money, but alienated the loyal...
...features the "Lido de Paris 1961 Revue," with 13 bare-breasted girls. Such a broadminded willingness to bring religion to The Strip won him much gratitude: Wilbur Clark, owner of the Desert Inn Hotel, donated a $185.000 site near The Strip for a Catholic church, and some still anonymous benefactor gave Father Crowley his Mercedes-Benz...
...Central America." Other apologists, ignoring Trujillo's terror, pointed to the Dominican Republic's sharply improved per-capita yearly income ($225, about average for Latin America). But the average did not reflect the disproportionate share of the wealth acquired by the ubiquitous Trujillo family through The Benefactor's standard 10% cut on all public-works contracts, his heavy interests in sugar, textiles, cattle, insurance, and his monopolies of salt, cigarettes, lumber, matches, milk and peanut oil. When the coffin lid shut on Trujillo's business career last week, he was worth an estimated $800 million. Feeding...