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...Since then, the picture changed, partly because things looked quieter at Berlin-at least for a while. In the latest poll. Erhard-whom der Alte usually treats like an office boy-is now the first choice for Chancellor, with 28%, while Adenauer is down to 22%, Brandt to 21%. Poorest showing is Erich Mende's, with only 1% wanting him as Chancellor...
...regular address," says Knocko. "You just stayed in one place as long as the landlord would let you, and then you moved on. We were poor, we were poor. We're not proud of it, but we don't shun the fact that we were the poorest family in South Boston." The family stove was fueled with stray lumps of coal that Knocko and Dannie picked up in the railroad yards, and John's meager earnings were supplemented by a "pauper's basket" from the welfare department. "I had to go down to the Chardon Street...
...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...