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Schaefer hopes eventually to survey a total of ten states, including California, Massachusetts, Michigan, South Carolina, Washington and West Virginia. Mississippi, the poorest state, was not surveyed because, Schaefer indicated, Mississippian Jamie Whitten, chairman of the House Agriculture Appropriations Committee, blocked the study...
...important to recognize clearly that the sub-classes that have been singled out are at the two ends of the class-system, the richest and the poorest. This is because these are the only two sectors which have the capacity for acquiring power. The elements of power are: 1) Wealth 2) Institutional Leverage--this means control over the few tightly organized sectors of society, the government, business (big and small), and the communications networks, and 3) Numbers -- any group, if it is sufficiently large...
Mali, a landlocked country in West Africa, is one of the poorest nations on the continent. Annual per capita income is about $40, there is no significant industry, and there are no important mineral deposits. About 95% of the 4,700,000 Malians are subsistence farmers. Mali's exports (mostly cattle and cotton) are minuscule. Trade deficits have been running at an average $20 million annually, and rose to $38 million in 1966. Keita's struggle to impose a socialist economy met with a singular lack of success. Coupled with these problems had been Keita's steady...
...diversion of popular votes to Governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella. Ferré is unabashedly pro-American; the art museum that he founded and funded in his native Ponce was designed to symbolize the interaction of U.S. and Hispanic cultures. When Puerto Rico's economic level reaches that of the poorest mainland state, Ferré has argued, his island will be ripe for statehood: it should soon equal Mississippi...
...hear nouvelle vague Director Jean-Luc Godard deliver a lecture on movie making. But the appointed hour came and went with no sign of the speaker. Finally, the disappointed audience was read a telegram from the elusive Godard: "If I am not there, take anyone in the street, the poorest if possible, give him my ? 100 lecture fee, and talk with him of images and sound, and you will learn from him much more than from me because it is the poor people who are really inventing the language. Yours anonymously, Godard...