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...ragged sisters, one "Hungry" (Zoe Sarnat) and the other an "Idiot" (Andrea Thome), represent the evils of poverty. Sarnat convincingly portrays a "poor, starving orphan waif" who wallows in self-pity before she finds...
...Miss Emily Brent, an aged spinster, Andrea Thome manages to keep her back erect and her opinions prim even as her peers die in hideous fashion. John Ducey adopts the physical mannerisms of an old fogey perfectly, and his General Arthur MacKenzie shambles from place to place in a manner that is both disconcerting (Ducey's mouth hangs open for much of his time on stage) and endearing (when he apologetically requests a certain seat because "that's where my chair is at the Club...
...American would have to pay about half the winnings in U.S. taxes. Like most participants. Marc Lafleche of Montreal did not regret the week's wages he wagered. "Drawings like this are the only way the little guy can dream about a better life," he said. John Thome, 21, an unemployed laborer, can do more than dream. Thorne took his collection of 1,100 pennies to the bank, exchanged them for dollar bills and spent the $ 11 on lottery tickets. He was one of the ten second-prize winners who got $354,784 each...
Interior Secretary James Watt, who once headed a private Colorado group fighting federal restrictions on oil exploration in the West, is only the best known of Reagan's "fox in the chicken coop" administrators. Before he was named head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Thome Auchter served as spokesman for a construction company owned by his family that had been cited 48 times by OSHA for safety violations. Two lobbies that have fought hard against meat inspections now have former executives high in the Agriculture Department: Assistant Secretary C.W. McMillan of the National Cattlemen's Association...
...promising elaborate benefits while making insufficient contributions to pension kitties. The General Accounting Office watchdogs reviewed at random 72 state and local government pension plans and found that 53 of them failed to make contributions on the level required by the Federal Government of private corporations. Says Michael Thome, head of the California state teachers retirement system: "Pension costs have been pushed into the future for somebody else to pay. Now, that day has arrived...