Word: thirdly
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...white. Since 70% of the nation's citizens live in cities and towns, it is not surprising that more than 60% of the poor are urban dwellers. In age, nearly half of the poor are 21 or younger; a quarter 55 or older. Indeed, a third of all Americans of 65 or older?5,400,000 of them ?are poor...
...other one-third of poor mothers are widowed, abandoned, divorced or unmarried?and the last have proved to be the most fecund of all. Fully 40% of all offspring on the national rolls of the Aid for Dependent Children program are illegitimate. AFDC spent $2.3 billion last year, up from a quarter of a billion dollars 20 years ago. One angry black Atlantan estimates that 616 poor Negro households in her housing project contain only 30 headed by a husband. The rest are women-dominated. Mrs. Marie Childress of Cleveland, for example, receives only $102 a month to feed...
Last week Lurleen Burns Wallace, 41, died in her sleep. She had served 16 months as her husband's standin, executing orders that he dictated from a desk across the hallway. She was buried in Montgomery amid military pomp, while a tearful Wallace interrupted his demagogic third-party campaign to mourn. From her deathbed, Lurleen had urged him to keep up his quest for the presidency, though public life as Governor's lady and then as the nation's only lady Governor was never to her taste. "Politics," she once recalled, "was something Daddy discussed...
Though only a third of the council seats were at stake, the rout left Labor in control of only 43 out of 374 boroughs in England and Wales; only five of the 43 were in big cities...
Depth was a major factor in Winthrop's win. In its strongest winter performance ever, it grabbed seconds in hockey and squash. Third place finishes in golf, boxing, fencing, and tennis, and a fourth in track provided the points needed to push Winthrop...