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Piles of Levis, corduroys, sweaters, and sneakers collected in the Hillel office are destined for the Ethiopian Jews who make it to Israel free but penniless, the Massachusetts Daily Collegian reported last month...
...taken back and his feats expunged from the record books when it was discovered that Thorpe had earned $15 a week during two summers as a minor league outfielder, thus forfeiting his amateur status. The loss of the gold medals he had fairly won bothered Thorpe until his death, penniless and crippled by alcohol, in 1953. Last week, after a lifelong battle waged by his daughter, Charlotte Thorpe, 63, the International Olympic Committee announced that it would reinstate Thorpe's medals. "My next push," says Charlotte, "is to get Dad's remains [now in Jim Thorpe, Pa.] back...
...half. FORTUNE magazine estimated that 27.5 million Americans had no regular income at all. More than a million of the jobless roamed the country as hobos. Ugly clusters of tin-can shanties known as "Hoovervilles" sprouted in the midst of New York City's Central Park. Penniless men tried to sell apples on street corners. Many talked of revolution...
...Roots. This Wednesday through Friday, the network tries to braid the formats and themes of those shows in a 19th century drama of Irish rebellion and emigration, The Manions of America. The Irish of the 1840s are presented (with some historical accuracy) as equivalent to the slaves in Roots-penniless, helpless, but more open and loving than their oppressors, more family oriented and especially more sexual. The English are schematically divided. The wicked are defined as those who try to suppress the Irish; their victims nonetheless eventually rise to wealth through suffering (a theme of Rich Man, Poor Man). Virtue...
...matter--be it calendar reforms, investment policy, or library hours. Moreover, students as individuals do not have or the power to guard their interests. Therefore, at this time, we need an effective student government, funded and centralized, to act as our advocate, rather than the present fragmented and penniless system...