Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liked Kennedy better when he was incoherent. Very poor taste...
Egypt's domestic economy is a mess. Despite a growth rate of about 8% this year, the bulk of the country's 40 million people remain desperately poor, with an average income of under $300 (vs. $2,700 for Israel). In the past year, thousands of peasants have abandoned the land to jam into the already swollen cities in hope of sharing in a peace-bred boom. Thus unemployment is soaring at a time when inflation is hovering above...
...Calcutta, arrived to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. At her request, the Nobel committee eschewed the traditional banquet after the presentation and donated the $7,000 that the dinner for 135 would have cost to her Calcutta-based Missionaries of Charity, who will use the money to feed 400 poor people for a year. The $190,000 award money that goes with the Nobel Prize will be used to build homes and hospitals for lepers...
...Sheen abruptly gave up his TV shows. At age 71, he became a controversial innovator as Bishop of Rochester. Known till then as a conservative, he put a civil rights activist on his staff, let parish priests elect his top aide and "taxed" church construction projects to help the poor. In 1967 he called on President Johnson to withdraw all troops from Viet Nam. But when he tried to sell a church and give the money to the poor without consulting the parishioners, he was forced to reverse himself, and soon asked to leave Rochester, a year before the usual...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Christina Onassis, 29, poor-little-rich Greek shipping heiress; and her third husband, Sergei Kauzov, 38, former functionary for a Soviet ship-chartering bureau; on the grounds of irreconcilable differences; after 16 months of marriage; in Athens. Said an Onassis family friend: "Christina was beginning to get rather bored...