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Deep down underneath a maze of statistical formulas designed to compensate for assorted variables such as sex, age, race, geographic location and family status, the definition of poverty rests on one bedrock invariable: people must...
...Happened One Night. Frank Capra hits his crest. This legend, a tremendously successful commercial venture ruined undershirts and all that, but it is funny and still fresh too. Gable became an important star with this, mostly by taking off his shirt and having another on underneath and that was swell for the dames of America, but we all wish that it was Claudette Colbert who sent the underwear business into Depression with the rest of the country...
...chants, jostling pedestrians and tying up midtown traffic for three hours. Another group besieged Police Commissioner Michael Codd's home in Queens, honking horns and yelling epithets; one enthusiastic demonstrator tore the star off the shoulder of a deputy chief inspector and threw his hat and walkie-talkie underneath...
...professor at Georgia State University, agrees. Says she: "Girls who might whisper, simper and have the vapors at a dance often were very strong women who knew Latin and Greek and had developed strong wills from their fathers. There was the external myth and the role separation, but underneath there was a lot of role switching. Many girls were handy about solving problems about the farm, and many boys were handy in the kitchen...
...Republicans gathered this week in Kansas City, success seems as elusive as the smoke that wreathes convention halls?a dream without much political substance. There is the customary hope and hoopla, the bunting and bravado, but underneath run currents of deep anxiety. Whoever gains the Republican nomination this year inherits a split and dispirited party and faces the heavily favored, consensus-minded Democrat Jimmy Carter. If the G.O.P. candidate loses in November, the already wobbly party will become even shakier. Not just its opponents but Republicans themselves are wondering whether the G.O.P. can survive much longer...