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...back, lost his job, and was separated from his wife. Andrade regularly paid $120 out of his $200-a-month medical compensation to help support his four minor children. After two years, Andrade's compensation ceased. Since then, he has been basically supported by his common-law wife, Elma Martello, by whom he has a three-year-old daughter...
...wife charged him with nonsupport. He pleaded guilty, and the county recommended probation. But Pasadena Municipal Court Judge Joseph A. Sprankle took a firmer view: "I am concerned about all the children this man is producing without the ability to support them." He gave Andrade a choice: marriage to Elma Martello and sterilization by vasectomy-or jail...
Rafer Johnson was born to Elma and Lewis Johnson in a town named Hillsboro, south of Dallas. He was just 18 months old when his family moved to an all-Negro district of Dallas. There Rafer spent his early years in a bitter little world of segregation, discrimination and poverty. "I don't care if I never see Texas again." Johnson says, with a rare flash of anger. "There's nothing about it I like. If my family had stayed in Texas. I not only wouldn't be representing the U.S. in the Olympic Games-I wouldn...
Fringe Benefit. In St. Paul, the Minnesota Industrial Commission handed down the ruling that Elma Sweet, 62, was just as much on the job when she slipped on an icy walk during a coffee break as any "employee who is allowed to smoke or blow his nose...
...does not sing a song of biology as stirringly as The Living Desert, but it is still one of the best movies ever made about Africa. With able use of the telephoto lens, along with plenty of patient scrounging around in the underbrush, Cameraman Alfred Milotte and his wife Elma have managed to sit the moviegoer a little nearer front and center than he has ever sat before at the greatest wild animal show on earth. The best bits...