Word: leanest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mendicant Life. Editor Rabinowitch did not expect the Bulletin to prosper, and he was right. "To say that the Bulletin was founded on a shoestring would be to describe it as overdressed," he says. Despite one of the leanest budgets in the business-currently $24,000 a year-it has lived a mendicant's existence, begging office space from the University of Chicago, money from foundations, handouts from subscribers, art work from a physicist's wife, and articles from the leading scientists of the world. Its admonitory pages bristled with urgent crusades: for disarmament and against military control...
...Three. That left one Republican well in front: New York State's able Attorney General Louis Jacob Lefkowitz, 56. Born and bred in Manhattan's Lower East Side slums, sad-eyed Louis Lefkowitz worked his way through Fordham law school, worked faithfully for the Republicans during their leanest years, was tapped as a city judge by La Guardia, later did handsomely in private law practice, and has proved himself a hard and effective campaigner...