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...Amazon rain forest-is changing the lives of thousands of Andean Indians who have lived for centuries in hopeless poverty and despair. With the road come jobs, and with the jobs come large payrolls ($1.75 to $2.50 a day for laborers) that enrich the local economy and help usher in such 20th. century conveniences as sewers, electricity and refrigeration. Once a section of the road is completed, local farmers are able to trade more easily with neighboring villages and get their products out to bigger urban markets. Eventually, Belaunde hopes to relocate almost 1,000,000 peasants from the more...
Garner was no mere usher for the New Deal. He was its midwife, using his years of Capitol Hill experience to ram much of F.D.R.'s program through Congress in the famous "first 100 days." Just as fellow Texans Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson would do later, Garner operated behind the scenes. Through the first two F.D.R. terms he stayed hitched to Roosevelt, whom he called "Cap'n." A lifelong foe of Eastern banking interests, he had been a major force in forging a graduated income tax, guaranteeing bank deposits, and baiting big business. Garner worked loyally for Roosevelt...
...Junior usher; varsity hockey, captain; Varsity Club, secretary; Education for Action summer volunteer; D.U. Club; Hasty Pudding...
Dunster House Committee, social chairman; freshman baseball; varsity baseball; intramural basketball; St. Paul's Catholic Club; Pre-Law Society; Pi Eta Club; junior usher...
Pure Escapism. Nicholson, a former usher who graduated to theater owner, first met his partner in 1952 when, on behalf of a client, Attorney Arkoff threatened suit for title infringement. Impressed with each other's skill at infighting, they decided to join forces, borrowed $3,000 and turned out their first production, The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes. To shave expenses, they reduced the monster's role to something resembling an oversexed vaporizer, but Beast was a screaming success, owing almost entirely to the pull of the title and the practice of "saturation booking" -showing the feature...