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...official Government standards, a single city dweller is poor if he earns less than $1,540 a year-a level that exceeds West Germany's average per capita income of $1,358, and seems opulent beside Spain's $342. To determine the precise borders of poverty, the U.S. reckons that a man could have three adequate meals a day for 700 if he bought nothing but Government surplus foods. The minimum also includes a sparse allowance for rent, clothing and other necessities; in the case of a single farmer, who can obtain cheap food, the minimum...
Terror & Submission. In eight ruthless years, Duvalier has terrorized his 4,500,000 people into numb submission. Life expectancy is 32.6 years. Per-capita income is $70 a year. Population density is the highest in the hemisphere. Illiteracy runs 90%. "Haitians," Duvalier says quietly, "have a destiny to suffer." Duvalier's 5,000-man Tonton Macoute (Creole for bogeymen) roam the country, soaking up blood money from businessmen, torturing and murdering suspected anti-Duvalieristes-sometimes even slaughtering whole families. Early this year, one mutilated corpse lay a whole day in the Port-au-Prince sun, as a grim lesson...
Father Dan came by his fiscal acumen purely through "priestly duty." On his first assignment in Peru in 1950, in the poor (per-capita income: $65) Andean town of Puno, he decided that what his peasant charges needed was financing as well as faith. In 1955, he organized the Puno Credit Union-Peru's first-with 23 members and $25 capital. While private banks were paying 4% interest on savings and lending at 20%, Father Dan's union paid 6%, loaned at 12%. Before long, the villagers were depositing what cash they had in the union...
...identified as the more familiar Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano. Anyone who dials Socrates Lovinger's number, as given by Carson-LE 5-3221-is bound to get the wrong dog. And where Carson wants to score a point, he fudges: "More people are drinking, but per capita they drink less...
What was the cause of Lou Gehrig's death? Who made the submarine Alvin, which found the hydrogen bomb off the coast of Spain? Which of the states spends the least funds per capita on higher education? Which the most...