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With a successful housebuilding business in Burlington, Vt., George J. Chicoine figured to be able to meet the modest $150-a-week child-support payments that were due his estranged wife. But he eventually fell $2,550 behind. Brought before Judge Robert W. Lar-row, Chicoine claimed he did not have the money. The judge said that there was evidence he had $90,000 stashed away, and ordered him to pay. Chicoine refused. That meant that he was in contempt of a court order, and Judge Larrow threw him into jail. Chicoine has been an inmate ever since...
Sir/The problem of "Empty Pockets. . ."can be solved by a simple reordering of priorities: schools before bombers, houses before missiles, hospitals before napalm. The multibillion-dol-lar defense budget is what's killing us. With defense like this, who needs enemies...
...known, this is the first ?? a Harvard lecture course with a lar?? rollment has begun with a reading p?? The change does not appear to re?? any special University approval. Th? Faculty members involved-Edward ?? Banfield; Henry Lee Shattuck. Pro?? of Urban Government, and Edward Kennan Jr '57. Lecturer on History ??rived at their decisions separately...
...Government might try to make the ghetto a high-profit magnet. For example, it could give bigger tax write-offs for ghetto investments, cheaper loans, and guarantees simi lar to those it offers to U.S. investors in underdeveloped countries. The inducement of tax holidays made Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap a resounding success. If the business man and the Government looked at the ghetto as an underdeveloped country, they would in fact see one of the world's greatest potential markets. If black incomes were brought up to the white level, businessmen would have a new market of about...
Deeper down, inflation caused some dangerous distortions in the U.S. economy. Consumers and businessmen rushed to borrow, spend and invest, hustling to convert their cash into goods or services before the value of the dol lar declined still further. All this only stoked inflation, and led to an abnormally steep demand that may cause an abrupt contraction on some less lucky tomorrow. As usual, some of the worst victims of inflation were the poor, who had to pay more for everything and lacked either the resources or the sophistication to invest in property or paper with a rising value...