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...long been known for pioneering social work in his poverty-ridden region deep in the Cumberland Mountains. He helped set up health clinics and organize farm cooperatives, as far back as 1940 sponsored some of the South's first interracial, interfaith work camps. The son of a Kentucky tenant farmer and a graduate of Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, Smathers attributed his election* to his church's "recognition of those who serve in the difficult places of the world among the forgotten." As for Christian witness, Smathers says: "My concept of evangelism is that...
...millstone around the neck of a developing nation. Because of the spine-like ridge of mountains that runs up the middle of Taiwan, only 3,000 of the island's 13,800 square miles are arable; for centuries, that land was held by landlords and worked by tenant farmers. The Nationalist government of Chiang Kaishek, under a land-reform program, distributed small plots to the tenants-and encouraged landlords to invest their settlement money in industry. Now, with farmers keeping 80% of their crop v. 43% in the old days, rice production has increased from 20 tons an acre...
...blouse nearly $10, a TV set $490. Housing rents for $11 to $20 a month for a four-room apartment, including kitchen and bath-but try and get it! To relieve an acute housing shortage. the government is throwing up 68,000 new apartments a year. But the prospective tenant must "volunteer" to spend at least 600 hours shoveling dirt on the construction site before he can even hope to move...
...date, about half of CLAO's 436 cases have dealt with divorces, non-support cases, and other problems of "family law." Landlord-tenant and consumer problems together make up another quarter. Eleven per cent have been criminal, mostly juvenile and misdemeanor cases...
...pathologically guarded from outsiders. The stories said that Hughes, suffering from emphysema and Addison's disease, went to Boston for treatment four months ago, ensconced himself in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where he rented the entire fifth floor and posted armed guards to keep newsmen away. Was the tenant really Hughes? Reporters picked up a trail when they heard that Hughes was spirited off by private train to Las Vegas and carried on a stretcher at 4 a.m. to a penthouse bastion at the Desert Inn. The hotel doesn't even show that he is registered...