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Begging for the Scraps. For all the squalor, few slum dwellers would return to the farm. Back home in Chile's Andean highlands Alberto Paredes, 26. earned 25? a day working on a hacienda "with only the wind and the animals." Today in Santiago he makes $1.50 a day as a construction helper. "Here I have a radio," says Paredes. A Peruvian mountain couple, German and Aurelia Ortega, are stuck in El Monton (The Pile), a Lima slum of 5,000 people beside a garbage dump. With 14 relatives, they huddle in a dirt-floored hut-its walls made...
...Farm Bureau began their duel to win over legislators. But the great gladiators overlooked Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire, a political pixy who is fond of making dramatic displays of his independence. A member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Proxmire introduced a measure that would, in effect, scrap the Freeman proposals and continue the present farm program for another year. The Agriculture Committee adopted Proxmire's substitute by a 9-8 vote...
...Scrap by scrap...
Against this, President Kennedy argued that steel's bill for raw materials is cheaper now than in 1958; iron ore has remained level, while coal and steel scrap have dropped sharply. More important, the President declared that the productivity of steel workers has risen enough so that the labor costs of producing a ton of steel have not increased since 1958, and will actually slip a bit this year. Productivity is an elusive and much disputed statistic. Kennedy's estimates of productivity gains in steel were roughly double the industry's own estimate of 2% yearly...
...flying elbows. Tempers flared, and the Celtics' Sam Jones (6 ft. 4 in.) picked up a photographer's stool to threaten the Warriors' giant Wilt Chamberlain (7 ft. 2 in.). Boston's Carl Braun and Philadelphia's Guy Rodgers squared off in a brief scrap that brought hundreds of spectators onto the floor. Once that was over, Rodgers picked a new target: Jim Loscutoff, one of the burliest Celtics of all. Fist fights started so often that the league's roly-poly President Maurice Podoloff slapped fines on five players...