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...sense, affluence is the enemy of efficiency. Affluence weakens, sometimes to the point of nonexistence, the worker's fear of being fired. In her study of the Depression, The Invisible Scar, Caroline Bird describes almost lyrically the service enjoyed by people who were well off in the 1930s: "Shopping was a pleasure
Moyers recalled some imaginary advice he had given Johnson. For instance, when L.B.J. wanted to show the people he was "human like everyone else," Moyers said: "Gee, why don't you show them your scar?" Then there was the time when L.B.J. asked Moyers' advice on whether he should run in 1964. Moyers' suggestion: "Why don't you ask Mrs. Johnson...
...coroner who examined Walt found scar tissue under the skin of the boy's arm, indicating that he had shot heroin before. There was no evidence of the needle tracks common to hardcore addicts. Still, Walter weighed only 80 lbs.; so a double injection of heroin -the suspected dosage-would have been enough to depress his breathing and kill him. Was he deliberately given too powerful a dose? Maybe he had threatened a pusher, many of whom are his own age. Or did he perhaps know exactly what he was doing...
...year, older and a little wiser, Claudine brought suit against the company. Ruling that the studio had taken advantage of a minor, the judge ordered Ulysee Productions to return the skin, to cut the scene from the movie, and to pay for plastic surgery to repair Claudine's scar. He also awarded her $6,000 that should help soothe her wounded pride...
...victory, the conservationists are wary. Concerned that the gorge may yet be despoiled by speculators who might scar it with roads, cabins, camp sites and motorboat docks, University of Kentucky Agricultural Economist Carl M. Clark warned: "We saved the gorge from the water. Now we have to save it from the people." Moreover, the conservationists are well aware that many more of America's remaining wild rivers are ticketed for taming. Among some 70 dams on the corps' boards or under construction are projects that would affect the Sangamon in Illinois (the tributary taken by Abe Lincoln...