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...chairman, Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, is all for the increase-though not long ago he was a bitter critic of the program, complaining that big-city mayors were turning it into "giant fiestas of political patronage" and, mixing metaphors, that they were feeding "political hacks at the trough...
...Crimson may have enough trouble getting itself in shape, disregarding Penn's always strong teams. Harvard is floundering in the trough of a two-game losing streak. The bottom half of the line-up is playing poorly, even though sophomore Jim Torhorst, who should be playing four or five, is in the seventh position...
...subject. Alinsky is a free-lance anti-poverty warrior and self-styled "professional radical" who has spent 27 of his 57 years in the business. "He thinks," says an OEO official, "that he owns the poor." To which Alinsky replies that the Administration program is "the greatest feeding trough that has come along for the welfare industry in years." Ridiculing the paper-sifting public-welfare bureaucracy, he once snorted: "If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, there must be a 36-lane boulevard to hell paved with surveys...
...ammunition or target practice. Belle Starr and Calamity Jane looked more like Hoss Cartwright than Miss Kitty. Billy the Id has been described as an "adenoidal idiot." And until about 1890, when smokeless powder came into general use, acrobatic gun battles-with snipers falling off balconies into water trough-were unheard of, because each shot kicked up a cloud of acrid black smoke that soon blinded everybody...
Though hard-hit by graduation losses, plagued by student apathy, and riding on the trough of a 33-game losing streak, Crimson coach Rhesus J. Portfolio '00 is "cautiously optimistic" about his team's chances for success this season...