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...middle of the Penobscot River in northern Maine lives a band of four hundred Native Americans. The island, dubbed Indian Island to notify the tourists, is a picturesque spot for a Sunday drive. But behind the plywood wigwams that advertise "REAL MOCCASINS" and "REST ROOMS" the Penobscot Indians subsist in tattered shelters that the tourists never manage to discover. For the Penobscot are among the poorest of the Native American tribes...
Privately, the author has observed that Rome fell because of "the inevitable effect of immoderate greatness," adding that the question should not be why the empire collapsed, but how it managed to subsist for so long. Such epigrams amuse, but do not edify; for fuller explanations, the reader will have to wait for the concluding volumes of this profound and ambitious work...
...years before his death in 1957 at the age of 86, Kupka was able to subsist on the sales of his work...
...being called the "Fourth World": countries with burgeoning populations, few natural resources and an undeveloped industrial base. According to World Bank President Robert McNamara, who will issue a grim survey of the world economy this week, there are some 900 million people in this Fourth World who subsist on incomes of less than $75 a year. "They are the absolute poor," said McNamara, "living in situations so deprived as to be below any rational definition of human decency...
...been accomplished so deftly, however, that the Queen appears to look up sharply as Steiger and Hollis of the Yard (Richard Johnson) struggle off to her left. Now, times are hard, and there is continuing debate over whether the royal family requires a larger allowance on which to subsist. So that audiences will be certain that the Queen has not turned to trouping to supplement her $3 million per annum state allowance, Hennessy is required to begin with a title -almost like a proclamation-assuring all that "the royal family took no part in the making of this film...