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...Delta farmer, Perez was born in Plaquemines Parish (pop. 22,275), a spongy wilderness on the splayed toe of Louisiana, where the muskrats and the alligators outnumber the people. In Perez' lifetime Plaquemines has risen, through the discovery of rich oil and sulphur deposits, from Louisiana's poorest back-bayou parish to one of its richest. Although he has never made more than $7,000 a year as a public official, shrewd Leander Perez has become a multimillionaire through his law practice and interests in oil and sulphur lands in his native habitat...
...conservative, partly liberal and a little bewildered, and Kennedy accepts the early label as accurate: "I'd just come out of my father's house at the time, and these were the things I knew." He meticulously served the parochial interests of his district-Boston's poorest-voting for housing, urban renewal, veterans' pensions, social security, codfish. For the larger issues, Kennedy had little time or interest. Much of his time was spent in pursuit of pretty girls and higher elective office, and his absenteeism was notorious (in six years in the Lower House, he missed...
...Even the poorest readers ... should read at least at the sixth grade level," Conant says. Amplifying this point. Conant notes that he has "been at schools in which from 35 to 50 per cent of the ninth graders were reading at sixth grade level or below...
...interests in Press Products Inc. and the Bonan Corp., both Chrysler suppliers. The rattles show no sign of going away. Company auditors were investigating just about everyone in Chrysler's top echelon in search of financial links to Chrysler's suppliers. Irate stockholders, spurred on by the poorest first-half earnings of the big three automakers, threatened to sue the company. Tipsters-often ex-employees with imaginary gripes against Chrysler-flooded the front office with charges against dozens of executives. Moaned one Chrysler official: "The jackals are after...
...David Susskind, moderator of his own 10 p.,m.-to-sometime chitchat program (Open End), beamed out in the New York City area, was asked which of three presidential candidates on his recent shows came on as the strongest interviewee. Liberal Democrat Susskind gave Liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller the poorest marks: "He evaded and dodged every effort to get him to substantiate what he had said in public only a few days earlier." Another disheartening performer was Democrat Adlai Stevenson: "I approached him with something like idolatry, which I fear came through on the show. But I was disappointed...