Word: pauper
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...offer such unscientific evidence as "staggering gait" that often overlooks other ailments. Rarely represented by counsel, the bleary defendant is invariably stuffed into the "tank" long enough to get somewhat sobered up-then released and rearrested, often hundreds of times before the pathetic cycle ends with burial in a pauper's grave...
WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain's lively adventure in a three-part series. Part 1, "The Pauper King," features Sean Scully in a dual role-Prince Edward Tudor of England and his lookalike, Pauper Tom Can-try, who change places for a taste of each other's lives...
...Pauper's Pay. In doing so, motive has gained an enviable record for pioneering. It was one of the first church journals to accept and define civil rights as a theological problem. Although Methodist morality frowns on premarital sex, motive has dealt sensitively and sympathetically with student difficulties related to the problem. Such is the magazine's reputation for intellectual openness that theologians of the stature of Thomas Merton, Joseph Sittler and Albert Outler have frequently contributed some of their freshest thoughts to its pages, although $50 is maximum pay for an article...
...City. "What I do believe is that through the application of advanced educational and medical techniques we can salvage tens of thousands of these men each year, first for productive military careers and later for productive roles in society." In a speech in Montreal last May, McNamara warned that pauper nations endanger world peace and thus U.S. security. His V.F.W. address brought this thinking home: "Poverty in America affects our national security, too, by its appalling waste of talent...
...used his works as models for copy ing. In admiration, Novelist Honoré de Balzac said of him: "That fellow has Michelangelo under his skin." Yet the world's most famous satirist with brush and pen cost his country 12 francs in 1879 to be put into a pauper's grave...