Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haiti's 4,500,000 people, 90% are illiterate. Life expectancy is 32.6 years; per-capita income has slipped to $70 a year, lowest in the hemisphere. "Haitians," says Duvalier in his soft whisper, "have a destiny to suffer." And if his people complain, they can pray?from a 63-page Catechism of the Revolution turned out by the Government Printing Office and circulating last week in Port-au-Prince. The Lord's Prayer: "Our Doc who art in the National Palace for Life, hallowed be Thy name by present and future generations, Thy will be done...
...growing numbers of whites are no longer afraid to speak out for the Negro and to break what Lillian Smith called the "dreadful silence of the good." Some Negro leaders complain that many of the "new" liberals are superficial and favor the Negro cause only because in certain quarters it is now popular, almost fashionable, to do so. But the very fact that it is popular marks a tremendous change. North Carolina's former Governor Terry Sanford speaks for many Southerners when he says: "We had lived with our myths for so long that we actually believed the vast...
...sprightly, popular treasurer of the Holton-Arms School for girls in Bethesda, where she started as a dancing teacher in 1927. Among her close friends was unpredictable, withdrawn Dorothy Butts, a Methodist and a former teacher at Holton-Arms. Early this year, Miss Happer, a Christian Scientist, began to complain of stomach pains; by March she had lost 37 Ibs. Finally, despite the tenets of her faith, she was persuaded to see a doctor, who insisted that she enter a hospital for further tests of an abdominal tumor...
...finance almost all of its growth in trade. When the U.S. and Britain run big payments deficits, they pump out plenty of dollars and pounds for the world to use. When other Western countries accumulate a lot of dollars and pounds, on the other hand, their bankers start to complain of inflation and tend to trade in some of that money for U.S. and British gold. There is constantly a dilemma: either Washington and London lose gold, or the rest of the Western world runs low on capital...
Perched on the edge of the Iron Curtain, opulent little Austria sits between two worlds-and makes the most of both of them. Its prosperous people proclaim their neutrality almost as ardently as they complain about their overcrowded parking lots and eagerly sell their steel, sausages and stretch pants to countries as diverse as the U.S. and Red China. Glittering Vienna, which has more high-priced jewelry stores and high-calorie pastry shops than any other continental city, is a compelling advertisement for capitalism to the thousands of Eastern Europeans who visit it every year. Last week the Austrian National...