Word: gauntness
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...prouder of Gideon's impact than Clarence Gideon himself, who was later retried with counsel-and acquitted. Now 55, Gideon is a gaunt gas station attendant in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with an unbounded faith in lawyers. "I've seen ignorant white people and Negroes accused of petty larceny," he says, "and if they had a lawyer they'd get six months, but without one they'd get 15 years. I tell you the prisons are full of lifers who wouldn't have got near that much if a lawyer had handled them. I didn...
...bank, a regional version of the World Bank, will fight Asia's crushing poverty by financing such sinews as industry, power, roads and transport. Jetting around the globe, teams led by gaunt Cornelio Balmaceda, the Philippines' Commerce Minister, have raised $936 million in capital for the banking marriage of East and West. Asian governments, which will control the bank, supplied $641 million of that money, the U.S. another $200 million. Europe left the bank shy of its goal of $1 billion in capital by pledging a disappointing $70 million; France and the U.S.S.R. stayed out, and Britain offered...
Public Flogging. His outspoken defiance turned Sir Humphrey, 63, a gaunt and rangy Englishman who settled in Rhodesia 37 years ago, into the foremost symbol of opposition to the Smith regime. Staying with him in Government House was Rhodesia's Chief Justice Sir Hugh Beadle. Outside, more than 3,000 Rhodesians, white and black alike, stood in line last week to sign his guest book...
...Colonel Houari Boumedi enne's first acts after he seized power in June was to denounce the schemes for Pan-African subversion, which had been so dear to his predecessor, Ah med Ben Bella - and which had proved so costly to Algeria. The gaunt new Premier has ended the fat subsidies handed out to the 22 foreign revolutionary movements based in Algiers, ordered exiles to stop their political activities or leave the country. As if to prove his good intentions last week, the government newspaper El Moudja-hid published long front-page tributes to Upper Volta and the Ivory...
...Mahalia Jackson, 53. "Just a little humming around the house. The muscles were all relaxed, and I wondered how it would come out." After eleven months' convalescence following a heart attack, Mahalia was still a little weak and scaled down from her old 250 Ibs. to a relatively gaunt 160 Ibs. She needn't have wondered about her rich contralto: it came out just fine. To save her the wear of traveling to studios on the East or West coasts, Columbia Records hauled some special tape equipment to Chicago. And there last week in the choir loft...