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Lansdale, Pa...
Well it might be. Born in 1936 in Derry, Pa. (pop. 3,400), near Pittsburgh, Boyer is the son of a railroad conductor and brakeman. Early on he was more inclined toward football than scholarship. His high school class voted him "most athletic"; his own ambition, he wrote presciently in his yearbook, was "to become a successful businessman." He also developed a taste for science. Encouraged by his hard-driving high school coach, who doubled as a science and math instructor, he went on to pursue those subjects at nearby St. Vincent College, a demanding Benedictine school. A few summers...
...tolls lose their human meaning. The blood will seem much redder if we look at the reports of actual atrocities committed by the El Salvadorean government and documented by a Congressional fact-finding mission. Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Ma.), Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), and Rep. Robert Edgar (D-Pa.), obtained hundreds of first hand accounts of "murder, torture, rape, and the burning of villages and crops" by Government Security Forces. According to the United Press International...
Joseph Lilley, 41, drives a van for Erie Independence House, a home for twelve handicapped people in Erie, Pa. He earns $4 an hour for a 40-hour work week, and his salary is paid by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), the federal jobs and job-training program founded in 1973. With four children and a wife on welfare, Lilley considers himself lucky to hold the CETA-funded post. "Before this job, I was on welfare," says Lilley. "I probably would have trouble finding another job because I have a prison record. CETA helps people like myself...
...toilet tissue with a ticket for a promotional game called Scott Cash. As he scraped away the silver coating over a tic-tac-toe grid, he discovered that he had won $1,000. The elated Sanchez family promptly sent the ticket, as stipulated, to Scott Paper Co. in Chester, Pa., by registered mail. After a month went by without a word from Scott, Martin Sanchez called the firm only to be told that someone had signed for the ticket, but no one could find it. Sanchez sent them a photocopy. Two weeks later, Scott pronounced his entry invalid, claiming...