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Some elderly people fight back. Not long ago, Gertrude Booker, 75, wrestled a husky teen-age purse snatcher to the ground before she decided that her pocketbook, which contained only bus fare, really was not worth fighting for. Jane Gilbert, 70, has taken karate lessons, and is determined to go out after dark, although she has been held up twice...
Among other ethnic groups, Carter did better. In Rhode Island, which has the highest unemployment rate in the nation (11%), Catholic blue-collar workers, responding to union drives, cast thousands of pocketbook votes for Carter, helping him sweep the state. Said Margaret McKenna, Carter's campaign chairman in Rhode Island: "The turnout was big because the people feared that another term for Ford would have been disastrous for the state. The economy has been in constant decline in Rhode Island, and Ford was blamed for it." Carter also took some 56% of the Irish and about...
Giscard's measure, formally before the National Assembly after two years of preparation, is a favored part of his much-publicized program to reform France into an "advanced liberal society." It is also his first move to touch the well-guarded French pocketbook. Giscard is well aware of the fact that as a nation, France has turned tax evasion into a national pastime, costing the government, by some guesses, $12 billion a year in uncollected revenues. It is estimated, for example, that the country's 2.3 million self-employed people declare only half of their income by such...
...nothing else, Iran has, of late, repeatedly shown a willingness to open up its pocketbook to finance improvement projects deemed worthy by its regime. It was not surprising to learn this week that Harvard has signed its second contract--this time for $425,000--with the Iranian government for the development of a master plan for Reza Shah Kabir University, a proposed 500-student graduate facility in the middle of an Iranian national forest...
...formal inquest--months later, because of legal maneuvering by Kennedy attorneys, and closed to the public--did little to dispel the mystery. Witnesses revealed that Mary Jo had left her pocketbook and keys at the cottage, hardly the actions of someone eager to return to her motel room. She had a .09 per cent alcohol level in her blood, (equivalent to 3 1/2 to 5 ounces of eighty to ninety proof liquor), although her friends testified she had not been drinking heavily at the party. Deputy Sheriff Christopher Look observed a dark sedan with Massachusetts license plates that began with...