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Private Lives. Hammett had been a Private Eye himself. He knew that "house burglary is probably the poorest-paid trade in the world." He had been mistaken for a Prohibition agent, hired by a woman to fire her housekeeper, was friendly with a man who stole a Ferris wheel. And he had stumbled upon a young woman who did not tell him that she thought his work was interesting. Unlike...
...condition that the vote settle the question "once and for all." Last week, after what one associate called "quite an emotional wrench," Muñoz threw his support behind a new idea: a proposal to Congress that when per-capita income in Puerto Rico equals that of the poorest state (Mississippi's $1,053 v. Puerto Rico's $480), Congress will consider Puerto Rico's tax structure and give the islanders a chance to vote on their "basic terms of association" with...
...government supplied 44 canoes for the eight-day trip to get his 14 tons of equipment to the site. "We built a hospital without water or electricity," says Dr. Dooley. "We had 35 beds, 50 mats, and a daily sick call of 100 persons." He insisted that even the poorest patients pay some fee, arguing that charity undermines self-respect, usually collected a pig as fee for an operation, a chicken for delivering a child...
...general, we Lakota (Sioux) are learning to conform to the customs of our white brothers and sisters. There is one custom that we do not intend to conform to-bathing beauty contests. Even the poorest of our Lakota women manage to cover their nakedness. They do not make public display of their bare hide or their bathing habits...
Albania is the tiniest (pop. 1,500,000), the poorest, and most backward of all Communist satellites in Europe, and the only one that has no common border with another state in the U.S.S.R.'s empire. It is thus the one part of the empire that...