Word: stricken
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...Drifter. Carpenter's father, a chemist, and his mother separated soon after Scott was born. Stricken with tuberculosis, his mother went into a Colorado sanitarium, and Carpenter was raised in Boulder, Colo., by his maternal grandfather, Editor Victor Noxon of the Boulder County Miner and Farmer. (The Noxon house stood on Aurora Street, a name that Carpenter later was to borrow for his space capsule.) The old man gave the boy his first lesson in self-reliance: how to live by hunting and fishing in the mountains of Colorado...
...Correspondent John Blashill made the journey through Brazil's poverty-stricken Northeast, a land as worrisome as "six Cubas." His searching report (see THE HEMISPHERE) makes the misery of the land apparent, and yet finds room to describe the elements around which hope may build...
Vanishing Vespa. Segni becomes President of a country that is more prosperous than ever-and less vulnerable than ever to the Communists. In the poverty-stricken south, income levels are still only half as high as in the industrial north, but Communist strength south of Naples is slipping. More than $2 billion in new industrial and agricultural developments in the south has created more jobs, raised the productivity of long-arid farmland. Foreign investors continue to treat Italy as a good risk; U.S. Steel is building a $16 million plant in partnership with the Italians. The unemployment rate...
George by Emlyn Williams. In this autobiography of his first 21 years, the celebrated actor-playwright writes well and warmly of his poverty-stricken Welsh beginnings and his near disasters as a scholarship boy at Oxford...
...Russian-made jet of the Syrian air force dropped two bombs in a futile attempt to knock out the Aleppo transmitter. The announcer hysterically broadcast news of the attack and begged Nasser to send Egyptian paratroops to save the situation. But Cairo replied only that Nasser "heard with grief-stricken heart the report of air operations by the Syrian air force against the people and army of the northern region." Damascus radio blasted the Aleppo officers as "traitors" who were taking orders from their "masters in Cairo." An armored column, spearheaded by 56 Russian T-54 tanks, drove northward toward...