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West Germany's most famous businesswoman is a self-made tycoon. During World War II, she piloted Luftwaffe planes from factories to the front lines. The end of the war found her a penniless widow picking potatoes to support herself and a young son. After hearing complaints from other women about unwanted pregnancies, she consulted a medical book and began selling a four-page birth-control pamphlet. Uhse paid the printer for the first publication by giving him 5 Ibs. of scarce butter...
...living in outer space. According to the UPI, a Negro space traveler named Mr. Quadir from the planet G-7 got on a Manhattan shuttle train wearing iridescent purple sunglasses and a green and yellow vinyl jacket to which had been pinned a rubber alligator. Explaining that he was penniless, owing to the unexpected crash of his spaceship, Mr. Quadir played a few tunes on his saxaphone and asked fellow passengers for financial assistance. When we called Mr. Young's Atlanta office, inquiring as to how he intended to exploit this extraterrestial opportunity, the spokesman was evasive, in fact uncooperative...
...that the earlier arrivals drifted in over a period of 20 years, giving the community time to assimilate them, many were middle-or even upper-class Cubans who arrived with some money and marketable craft or professional skills, and they came in family groups. The new refugees are predominantly penniless workers. A disproportionate number are single young men who grew up under a Communist system and have no idea of what life in a capitalist democracy is like. Though the established Cubans have been generous with donations of food, clothing and money, and have taken refugees into their homes, many...
...into various innovations, including a novel suspension system he sold to General Motors. In the 1960s, after the Dubonnet company merged with Italy's Cinzano, André left to continue his tinkering, this time with solar energy. His sun never rose; in his last years he was nearly penniless...
...ways, however, the latest refugees are worse off than their predecessors, who came with the first wave of Indochinese refugees after South Viet Nam fell. While earlier refugees often brought some money with them, most of the latest immigrants have bartered their cash for their lives and must begin penniless. According to a report by the General Accounting Office, the newcomers are generally less educated and less likely to speak English. The GAO found that "some refugees, particularly some Hmong Laotians, cannot read or write in their own languages and are virtually unexposed to Western culture." They must be taught...