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Daniel Lavette was born to chase the promise of America. He entered the world on the floor of a cold and drafty boxcar rattling across the continent of North America in January, 1889. His parents, penniless immigrants, were traveling to San Francisco, where the Atchison Railroad had promised his father a decent wage and a decent living. But while the railroad's promise proved hollow, the lie did not deter the father's son. Dan Lavette was too tough. By the time America's economic bubble burst in 1929, Lavette had dreamed, bluffed and borrowed...
...direct support beyond their college years. Says Ted Haydon, University of Chicago Track Club coach: "U.S. athletes are pretty much destitute, dependent on handouts from track-shoe companies. They think it's a great thing to get a pair of shoes or a sweatsuit. They're penniless for the most part, and nobody cares. Living in this condition makes them vulnerable to promoters who want to hype up their meets with big names. It's the fault of the system." In the same way, the payoffs finance the Olympic programs of most Western nations...
...partnership with the last Kabaka (King) of Buganda kingdom, Edward Mutesa II, the dapper, Cambridge-educated "King Freddie," who became Uganda's figurehead President. But in 1966 Obote seized the presidency for himself and crushed the Kabaka's followers; King Freddie escaped to London, where he died penniless three years later. Obote never really succeeded in uniting the contending Ugandan tribes, and was easily overthrown in January 1971 in an army coup led by Major General Idi Amin. Obote took refuge in Tanzania...
They say that the new Treasury boss arrived in the U.S. a penniless immigrant and worked his way up to the chairmanship of a major corporation. Why such a successful capitalist would walk away from a $500,000 a year job simply to work as a poorly-paid government official is difficult to understand, unless, perhaps, he has special plans for all those printing presses in the Treasury building...
Last week, after a two-month hiatus, the mild-mannered accountant returned to France from the Greek island of Corfu-tanned, newly bearded and quite penniless. Locked up in Paris' La Santé prison, he faces trial in an affair that has become as labyrinthine as the maze of catacombs that lies under the jail...