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Their average life span is 21 years shorter than their fellow citizens'. Their unemployment rate is nearly 40%, ten times the national average. Some 50,000 American Indian families live in miser able huts, shanties, tents, abandoned cars. Half of their children never finish high school. Their sickness, illiteracy and poverty rank among America's worst. Their sad estate last week moved President Johnson to declare in a message to Congress: "No enlightened nation, no responsible government, no progressive people can permit this shocking situation to continue...
Through the years in which Cactus Jack's legend grew, he enjoyed the tales as much as the public. They called him as taciturn as Coolidge, and he boasted that he had gone eight years in Congress without making a speech. They called him a miser and-though a multimillionaire-he employed his wife as full-time secretary and cook. He doted on hunting, fishing, poker and pungent Mexican cigars, loved his sour-mash bourbon and glorified convivial nipping as "striking a blow for liberty." Many a blow was struck with congressional leaders of both parties and with...
...Briand. But she wasn't merely a name sleeper; she democratically slept with all who could afford her huge fees. "Don't forget," she once told her friend Colette, "that there is always a moment in a man's life, even if he's a miser, when he opens his hand wide." "The moment of passion?" asked Colette. "No," replied Otero, "the moment when you twist his wrist...
...HONEY POT. Writer-Director Joseph Mankiewicz has modernized Ben Jonson's wryly wily miser, Volpone, for the contemporary talents of Rex Harrison, and makes up in witty dialogue what he loses in indecisive wavering between comedy and suspense...
...HONEY POT. Writer-Director Joseph Mankiewicz has modernized Ben Jonson's wryly wily miser, Volpone, for the contemporary talents of Rex Harrison, and makes up in witty dialogue what he loses in indecisive wavering between comedy and suspense...