Word: poorest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amateur-as a general election write-in candidate against Hays. The Governor assigned a crony to be Alford's campaign manager, staged a furious eight-day campaign. With segregation fever white-hot in Little Rock, Alford narrowly upset Hays. In Washington he distinguished himself only by compiling the poorest voting record in the Arkansas delegation (he turned up for 78% of the roll-call votes in the last session, compared with Wilbur Mills's 99%). Back home he saw less and less of Orval Faubus. A year and a half ago, when Alford ran success fully...
...poorest and least stable of Latin America's underdeveloped nations is Ecuador, a small, banana-growing republic perched on South America's Pacific rump. Ecuador's 4,400,000 people earn a per-capita annual income of only $165, one of the lowest in the hemisphere; by no coincidence only 13 elected governments have finished their terms in 131 years of independence. Last week President José María Velasco Ibarra, 68, earned the dubious distinction of becoming No. 35 to leave in midterm. Beset by strikes, riots and military revolts, he made a dash...
...rose was considered as profane for a century or so, due to its naughty association with Cupid, the Romans, et al. Rose heps (not hips) can easily be made into beads, and rose petals can be rolled and pressed into beads. These were within the reach of the poorest congregations and easy to count. The church sanctified the rose after finding that it couldn't root...
Starts Wednesday: Another Hollywood re-tread, this one of a delightful Marcel Pagnol novel, Fanny, which became, progressively, a stage play, a fine trilogy of films, a dull Broadway musical, and now all this -- the poorest of the lot. The principals are Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz and (how could it possibly be a decent picture?) Maurice Chevalier. Joshua Logan directed. Afternoons and evenings...
...grew 262 acres of corn on his 1,200-acre dairy and poultry farm at Big Flats, N.Y., where he also owns a restaurant and has varied business investments. This year, in protest against the Government's subsidy program, he agreed to take 104 acres of his poorest corn land out of production. He picked up his advance Government check for $3,049, used it as a down payment on a new, bronze $6,100 Cadillac, promised to pay the balance with another $3,451 check due from the Government at season's end. He dressed...