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There are more serious complaints: despite Tubman's economic gains, a large number of Liberia's 1,000,000 people still eke out all too meager an existence while the heirs of the old elite and government officials live handsomely. The 1969 austerity budget of $61 million, for instance, sets aside $37 million for government expenditure, including salaries, but only one-tenth that amount for development. Tubman's own annual salary as chief executive is $25,000. Agriculture has so far been given short shrift in economic planning. Graft and corruption abound, and Tubman's True...
...Angeles Rams game three weeks ago, Starr unaccountably pulled the biceps muscle in his throwing arm, watched from the sidelines as the Rams toppled his teammates 16-14. Against Detroit a week later, Starr entered the game for one play, painfully flipped a 3-yd. touchdown pass to eke...
...hold Nixon below the critical 270-mark in the Electoral College, Humphrey must take, besides those states conceded him, New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kentucky, Connecticut, Washington and Delaware. Either he or George Wallace must eke out a majority in Tennessee, South Carolina, and Arkansas, and Wallace must otherwise hold firm...
...tackle football, Adams dumped Kirkland to move into a second-place tie with Kirkland, while Dudley picked up an easy triumph when Winthrop didn't field a team. Dunster scored a touchdown late in the final period to eke out a 6-6 tie with Leverett...
...partly wrong. In Southern and Border states, he does threaten Nixon. A late Wallace surge could give the Alabamian five more states?the Carolinas, Tennessee, Florida and Arkansas ?and swell his electoral vote to 91. Or it could siphon enough votes away from Nixon to enable Humphrey to eke out a few unexpected victories. In the North, Wallace is cutting into the normally Democratic blue-collar wards. But a substantial number of those votes might have gone to Nixon this year because of the "law-and-order" issue, and now may be denied him. In any case, despite signs...