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Ugly Episode. With only one-third of the planned 600 shelters completed by week's end, cash, lumber-and occasionally, enthusiasm-were practically depleted. National Coordinator Bernard Lafayette said the campaign had funds only "for the next few days," appealed for $3,000,000 to keep it going. When others angrily pounced on Lafayette for making it sound as if the campaign were being mismanaged, he trimmed his estimate of cash needs to $84,000 and confessed: "I just goofed...
Appalachians are not the only poor whites; they can be found throughout the nation. "Years ago," says an old Maine selectman, "a boy could leave school, get himself a saw and a jitterbug (tractor) and go into the woods to cut lumber. He'd do all right." Men like Everett Williams, 35, can no longer do all right. Williams, a lean, bony man in outsized boots and a gas-station-green work shirt, lives with his wife and eight children in a rusty 8-by-23-ft. trailer on the swampy shore of Lake Winnecook, just off Interstate 95 near...
...materials (coal, grains and soybeans, for example) and the high-technology output of the world's most research-minded corporations (computers, aircraft, electronics). Between those extremes, chronic trade-balance weakness is suffered by at least 122 manufacturing industries. Among them: steel, paper, food-and-drink, glass, textiles, apparel, lumber, leather, shipbuilding, autos, watches and sporting goods. In 1-966, those 122 provided 35% of the nation's industrial jobs, but they ran up a hefty $7.5 billion trade deficit. Says Finance Chairman Robert C. Tyson of U.S. Steel Corp.: "America generally has become less competitive than...
...remains of another 450 abandoned houses, many only half-built. During eight years of neglect, streets caved in; tumbleweed rolled across once well-kept lawns and against the legs of curious sightseers. Golfers at Bellehurst's Los Coyotes Country Club were forced to climb over rotting piles of lumber and weed-cracked concrete slabs when they tracked errant drives into the rough...
Died. Jack Fulbright, 69, older brother of the Arkansas Senator, a Harvard ('24) football hero who sold steel in Missouri and lumber in Arkansas before retiring to Tennessee in 1960; of a heart attack; in Memphis...