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...Muskogee potato chip maker who went broke in the Depression, Jones, 40, grew up in the city's segregated black ghetto because it was the only place where his family could afford to buy a home. Armed with a taste for politics and a sense of social justice, he got a night-school law degree from Georgetown University, gravitated to Lyndon Johnson's 1964 campaign, and wound up as the President's appointments secretary, one of the handful of White House staffers closest to L.B.J. Of that period he now says, "We created a lot of cynicism...
Strange as it seems, a raw potato has fallen from a window high in a nearby apartment building and has nearly done Baker in. Splendid! A column idea from the gods...
...hustles to his typewriter and strums a slightly self-pitying ode to his own death by vegetable. In this column, he imagines an Associated Press report ?POTATO MASHES MAN?and broods about his friends saying "Poor devil, he never knew what hit him." "What did hit him?" "Haven't you heard?" Baker's high-wire act has never been snappier. He finishes typing and thinks about making himself a drink. ? John Skew...
...poverty are probably the ones who through their energy and motivation are the most able to help their poverty-stricken brethren. Ireland is the classic case where the able and strong abandoned a country, leaving the weak and infirm behind. True, Ireland is better off now than during the potato famines, but to attribute this to migration requires ridiculously long-run analysis. Similarly Galbraith plays down the racial hatred migrants have inspired and the dreadful standard of living--hardly better than what they left--that they are often forced to accept. Finally, while Galbraith says countries like Germany and Switzerland...
Even harder hit would be Aroostook County, Me., a depressed potato-farming area, where a reduction of Loring Air Force Base to a forward operating station would cause the loss of 2,780 jobs. The state's congressional delegation claims that move would produce a $22 million drop in retail sales and a surge in unemployment from 11% to about 20%. Says Abraham Etscovitz, who owns an automobile dealership in nearby Caribou: "We're going to pray...