Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More plausibly, Capote argued that a cheap crook with Ray's dismal record of bargain-basement villainy could not have traveled so far without extensive help from experts. In Capote's view, Ray was the low man in an elaborate and many-tiered plot-the pigeon paid to leave his fingerprints on a rifle and then decoy pursuers away from King's real assassin. The plotters allowed Ray to live, Capote hypothesized, because he had no knowledge of the conspiracy's inner core...
...money?perhaps explaining the $409 he had on him despite his being unemployed recently. He did well enough at John Muir High School to gain admission to Pasadena City College, but he dropped out. He wanted to be a jockey, but could qualify only as a "hot walker," a low-ranking track factotum who cools down horses after the run. Then he got thrown from a horse, suffering head and back injuries...
...drifting into the reeking slums that blight the cities like open sores. With the disarming candor and detachment of one who is stepping down from power-and is glad of it-Arosemena tells it like it is. "Infant mortality is high," he says. "The standard of living is low. The economy is in trouble as a result of exporting basic products-bananas, coffee, cacao-whose prices are in decline. The fiscal situation is also bad. Capital is lacking. Political passions have racked the country for 30 years." Since Velasco's overthrow in 1961, Ecuador has had four impotent caretaker...
Unorganized sectors and low-income organizations are ignored because they do not request assistance and in any case could not pay for it. Unless recruiting of clients is begun, they will continue to be by-passed. Comments Fein, "It's unlikely that we'll initiate a program of our own--that's outside both our tradition and resources. People say, 'Well, the ghetto is different, you have to stimulate requests.' That is no longer true; You have to wait. The ghetto is gaining sophistication...
...difference, of course, is one of perspective. UPA exists not for research, but as a service for its clients--low-income organizations which, says executive director James L. Morey, are "typically fighting the agencies the Joint Center is working for." Adds Morey, "We've been called the Cambridge Robin Hoods. I don't think the Joint Center could be called that by any standard...