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...Kentucky's poverty-blighted Wolfe, Breathitt, Knott, Harlan and Letcher counties, halting in hidden hollows at weather-bleached wood and tar-paper shanties sagging with neglect. And in spavined one-horse communities named Neon, Grassy Creek, Mousie, Fisty, Jackhorn and Cody, ragged, slack-eyed men and women and listless children with bellies taut from hunger spoke of their need...
Wakefield deftly shuttles back and forth between the two nations, from the cops to the hippies, from Kiwanians to the ghettos, from an energetic retirement village to a listless Indian reservation. The organization men, rich or poor, high or low, spout a lifeless, insensitive jargon. The unorganized are often speechless. Wakefield could hardly coax any words out of a young Indian man at a Phoenix school. But a white teacher was full of answers, such as "There are ten sociological variables which influence why Indian students become dropouts." Yet, Wakefield found grounds for hope. An Indian militant was distributing cards...
Harvard basketball tumbled into ignominy last night at the IAB. Following weekend losses to Penn and Princeton the listless, disorganized Crimson five suffered the ultimate Ivy League disgrace--a 65-60 loss to perennial cellar-dweller Dartmouth...
...their next meeting, however, he takes her to a hotel and begins the affair in earnest. As the summer drifts on, Benjamin's parents begin to worry about his listless manner. They arrange a date with an old school chum (Katharine Ross) who has but one fault: she is Mrs. Robinson's daughter. Benjamin confesses all, the girl runs back to campus, and her mother arranges a marriage of inconvenience in order to keep the couple apart. In the final reel, Benjamin revs up his psyche and his Alfa Romeo and heads for Santa Barbara to break...
When the lid came off, silver soared. At Manhattan's Commodity Exchange, a usually listless arena that deals in metals and hides, shirt-sleeved brokers shouted spot silver up to $1.775 per oz. on the first day. At midweek the price rose to $1.87 during one frenzied session when a record 16.25 million oz. worth nearly $30 million changed hands. At week's end the spot price closed at $1.8315, 42% above the dethroned Treasury price. The silver fever spread to the London Metal Exchange, where brokers planned to operate for the first time a formal futures market...