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...Sanford Darling, it started all over again. It happened one day when Darling, already 68 years old, was standing on his front lawn, trying to decide what color to paint his house. He stood there stooped, red-faced and wrinkled from a not very eventful life: a poor, fatherless adolescence; ten restless years as a chiropractor, a calling that he gave up because the hours were too long; 27 years as a technician for Mobil Oil, interrupted by frequent golf and fishing trips; the death, on his retirement, of his wife; and then a six-month Grand Tour, followed...
...plan, however, lies less in the level of payment than the source. For the first time, the economic base would be federal and nationally uniform. The second major element of the FAP proposal, again a departure from the past, is that the $1,600 could go not only to fatherless families, or families with unemployed fathers, but to an estimated 10,571,000 people in families that make up the working poor. They are mostly intact families, headed by males, and now go largely unaided?in effect, the walking wounded. The Administration estimates the additional cost...
...those on welfare, which puts an administrative ceiling of $166 a month on rents, the result was catastrophic. Hotel cases began to climb, and the length of stay stretched out. It is now an average 4½ months. Many fatherless families live in places like the Hamilton Hotel, where they huddle in one or two filth-encrusted rooms, some of the children dull-eyed and incoherent from illness, the adults too confused and helpless to ward off the misery or the rats...
...months. She became pregnant at 19 but did not want to get married. "I think having a mother and a father are important for a child, but Nicky can be raised so he isn't scarred. There are now substitutes in society that will allow him to grow up fatherless. I have no feeling of guilt. My only real hassle is with guys I meet who are interested in me, and I say, 'Oh, I have to go home and take care...
...when John William McCormack took the gavel in the U.S. House of Representatives was the fulfillment of a lifetime of labor and dreams. An Irish striver who had supported his fatherless family and raised himself from the meanest poverty of South Boston, he was the first Roman Catholic ever elected Speaker. He had worked and waited with loyalty and patience under the patronage and shadow of Sam Rayburn for more than three decades. Finally he achieved the rostrum once held by Clay and Cannon, Clark and Longworth...