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...hint of the robust tall-tale telling of his native Texas. He describes his grandfather, who, with good looks and a bottle of Teamster's Early Grave, convinced a conservation-minded wood nymph to transform herself "into one million board feet of one-by-ten of the very poorest quality neatly stacked in rail road cars on a siding outside of Fort Riley, Kans." Barthelme concludes: "Actually, he just plain cut down the trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Product | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

America's poorest state gave its seven electoral votes to Richard Nixon by a 78 per cent margin. Troglodyte James O. Eastland took 57 per cent of the vote and returns to the Senate to head the powerful Judiciary Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How the People Voted Throughout the Country | 11/8/1972 | See Source »

George McGovern, Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew have all revealed their financial worth. Last week it was Sargent Shriver's turn, and it proved to be the most surprising disclosure to date. Shriver, married to a Kennedy millionairess, turned out to be the poorest of the quartet of main political contenders. He put his net worth at the round figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Shriver's Assets | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

Portugal is one of the poorest nations in the West, with an average annual per capita income of only $460. Forty per cent of the population is functionally illiterate. Emigration out of the country--both to find better paying jobs and to escape the four years' compulsory military service--has reached alarming proportions. In the last ten years, 1.5 million people--a third of the total labor force--has left, causing a shortage of manpower and a rise in production costs...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Angola Is Not Portugal's Happiest Colony | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...stretch especially when they got to the playoffs. And you know, McCurdy's thinclads had one injury after another last year. That had a real debilitating effect on Crimson chances. McCurdy just couldn't get all his horses together last year and as a result, his squad had its poorest showing in some time...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Jock Talk: What's Ahead, John Harvard? | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

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