Word: cents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white ones" seem to be more a figure of speech than a reality. In Appalachia there might be a large scale white-poverty problem, but not in Alabama. It is no coincidence that in the state where less than 40 per cent of the population is black, nearly 97 per cent of the people who are poor are black...
...families in the Black Belt have seen children starve to death. But malnutrition is nearly universal. Many black families know about children who "can't think right" because of the wrong kind of food; a Dpeartment of Agriculture worker said last summer that somewhere between 20 and 25 per cent of all black children in central Alabama suffer brain damage by the time they are five years old because of protein deficiency. Adult Negroes show the effect of another kind of malnutrition. A diet based on fat and carbohydrate produces bloated, formless women, and men who die twice as often...
...cent of the YD pollees who said they would support no candidate, three-quarters indicated that they had been supporters of Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, about five per cent each had favored the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy '48 and Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. The other 15 per cent said they didn't like any candidate...
...WHRB poll revealed that McCarthy is still the favored candidate among the members of the Class of 1972. Twenty-seven per cent said they would write-in the Minnesota senator's name rather than vote for any of the three major party candidates. Vice President Humphrey, who received the highest vote of the official candidates, polled 24 per cent...
...additional 12 per cent indicated that they wouldn't vote for president, even if given the chance. Nine per cent favored Peace and Freedom candidate Eldridge Cleaver, the Black Panther minister of defense. WHRB Poll of the Class of '72 Candidate Per Cent Nixon 14 Humphrey 24 Wallace 2 Cleaver 9 Halstead 1 Write-ins McCarthy 27 Rockefeller 3 Wouldn't Vote...