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...disport himself on Bimini (which he calls "Adam's Eden") in the company of the comely Corinne (whom he calls "Huffie"). By now, Powell treats the Bimini natives as if they were his constituents. Whether holding forth at his favorite hangout, Brown's Hotel bar in the tumbledown gingerbread village of Alice Town-where he sips Beck's beer and "cowbells" (Cutty Sark and milk)-or slapping backs on the street, Powell calls the Biminians "my kin" and "soul brother." At week's end, he prepared reluctantly to leave them and face his troubles back home...
...Their privations nowhere approach those of Asia's (or even some of Europe's) submerged millions-yet the wretchedness of America's poor is accentuated by the opulence of the society that surrounds them. More than 7,500,000 Americans live in rat-infested tenements or tumbledown shacks that are officially-and euphemistically-classified as "dilapidated"; 1,500 U.S. citizens still die yearly from diseases caused by malnutrition; 6,000,000 subsist on free Government surpluses. In today's society, the nation's 11 million functional illiterates are relegated for life to the precarious ranks...
...private schools, to go to the free schools. None did out of principle, but Dickie was joined by three white students who are the children of poor farmers. One is a girl of seven, another a boy of eight. The third is Brenda Abernathy, 16, who lives in a tumbledown shack. Her ordeal, rising out of the poverty of her father, is tougher than Dickie's, but Superintendent Sullivan was heartened by her presence, however reluctant. Said he in his opening prayer: "We ask you to bless the students and to encourage them to take advantage of an opportunity...
Stumbling ashore on Damas Cays, Rafael found a rusty, tumbledown radio tower, apparently a World War II leftover. He slept awhile, then began to build a raft of several large pieces of driftwood, which he tied together with some rusty electrical wire he found. On his third day on the island, the waves washed up a rusty but seaworthy 50-gallon drum. Placing the drum in the open center of his 6-ft. by 8-ft. raft, Rafael lashed it loosely with loops of wire so that it would not float off and left himself some slack wire to serve...
...funds. The first of the modern, effective antileprosy drugs did not reach Samoa until 1951, eight years late. Today, this drug (DDS, for diaminodiphenyl-sulfone) is still the only one available there because it is the cheapest, though Dr. Donohugh believes later drugs would be more effective. And the tumbledown barracks building under a banyan tree. used as a leprosarium, is in such disrepair that Dr. Donohugh suggested the only thing to do was to burn it down...