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...last word behind a nonprofit organization," says Seale, 48. Where would the money come from? Believe it or not, from a cookbook, Barbecuing with Bobby, and possibly a barbecue video. "If Jane Fonda can drop 250,000 how-to exercise videos, why can't Bobby Seale drop a halfmillion of these things every barbecue season...
Last week Lyndon Johnson surprisingly came out hard for making the U.S. Government the employer of last resort for the "halfmillion hard-core unemployed in our principal cities." In his television interview, he declared: "I am going to call in the businessmen of America and say one of two things has to happen: you have to help me go out and find jobs for these people, or we are going to find jobs in the Government for them. I think it will have to be done, as expensive...
...farm program's biggest bad boy to date, but it became obvious that he has plenty of company. So far. the FBI has used 452 special agents from 46 cities in its Estes investigation, at a cost of $236,200; congressional investigations are expected to cost another halfmillion. But scandal was piling on scandal with such regularity that the price to the taxpayer of investigating them all might yet become a scandal of sorts itself...
...good murder mysteries, the scientific detective. Appearing seldom in public, he spent all his working hours in his laboratory squinting through microscopes, blinking at sputtering X-ray lamps, scrutinizing bloodstains. Elaborately indexed in his bureau were the record cards of nine million criminals, five million Bertillon photographs, a halfmillion fingerprints...
...banks which were creditors of his bank).* Thus Waggoner had apparently not engineered his scheme for any personal profit, but had sacrificed himself for his bank, which for a long time had been faced with dwindling deposits and threatened collapse. The Bank of Telluride was gainer by almost a halfmillion; the six Manhattan banks were losers by a halfmillion...