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...skidded from a full-time skilled job to part-time work on an assembly line: "I come up here from Ohio 20 years ago, and I thought this would be a good place for me. But now I'd tell a young fellow this is one of the poorest damn places in the country for your future...
Ireland's greatest export is men. Some 40,000 emigrate every year, mostly to Britain and the U.S., because there are few jobs at home. Those who do remain on the emerald farms and in the cities face a flinty life in one of Europe's poorest nations...
...pines for Jason who solaces himself with Aemilia. Monarches loves his wife Julia who leaves him for a nameless lover for whom she has waited for 15 years. Danae loves Simos who is too poor to offer marriage but can pay for an abortion. Sentimental Vivi is perhaps poorest of all-in love with the 2,000 records of the Light Music Department...
...Japan. The islanders are beset by leprosy, poverty, poisonous snakes, and fire. Again and again, storm-spread fires have all but wiped out the wooden shanties of Nase, the island's largest town (pop. 43,000). This month such a fire razed one of Nase's poorest sections-and blazed up into an ideological battle between a Communist and a Christian...
...obsolete that in its present form it amounts to a national scandal. Designed to cope with the problem of farm surpluses, it brings on bigger surpluses by setting high price supports. Designed to keep small farmers from going broke when surpluses drag prices down, it actually helps the poorest farmers least and the richest most. Designed to bolster the health and welfare of agricultural communities, it has tempted many a farmer to sharp practices because "only suckers" would refuse to take advantage of the loopholes in the law. Designed to cut surpluses by subsidized sales of grain and cotton abroad...