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...Wasp group that Norman Mailer [Feb. 8] has attacked with such venom, may I say that I resent being lumped into a segment of society that is so widely diversified that it links the richest with the poorest and the sometimes not-so-saintly with the so-called very angelic crowd...
...like the players' hands, by age and use. But the courthouse game ended last week and with it an era. A new black sheriff and judge were sworn in, completing the takeover of political power by an 80% black majority in one of the nation's poorest counties. TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane attended Inauguration Day. His report...
Burglary is the greatest problem in Green County, Gilmore said. He noted that his county was the fifth poorest in the nation in 1960. "Poverty has something to do with the crime level down there," Gilmore said...
Like other gifts to Mother Teresa, the money will go quickly to benefit the "poorest of the poor," to whom she has devoted her life. After two decades as a teaching nun in India, she received permission in 1948 to leave her order and work among Calcutta's impoverished masses. She set up outdoor schools and a dispensary and soon had a band of dedicated followers, who were officially recognized by the Vatican in 1950 as a new religious community. In 1952, the Missionaries of Charity -dressed in simple white, blue-bordered saris-won permission from Calcutta...
...even a modest economic revision were to work. But Warsaw's timing could not have been worse. Posted eleven days before Christmas in a staunchly Roman Catholic nation where the birth of Jesus is celebrated with gluttonous enthusiasm, the price rises were a direct provocation. Even the poorest family, for instance, sits down to a nine-course "Vigil Dinner" on Christmas Eve. So great was irritation over the government's moves that only a spark was needed to transform it into rebellion. The Lenin Shipyards provided that spark...