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...worked as a barber at $15 a week while Sirica's mother ran a grocery store, and the family (including John's brother Andrew) lived in a single room at the back. Afflicted with a tubercular cough, the father was warned by his doctor to seek a warmer climate, setting the Siricas off on a gypsy existence that took them to Ohio, Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and California. "It was an uphill fight against poverty, poverty, poverty," Sirica recalls...
Jaworski and Cox could hardly be more different in personal styles. A proper Bostonian, Cox, 61, is reserved, with flashes of arrogance; Jaworski, 68, is an expansive Texan, much warmer and more approachable. Jaworski soon showed that he is as devoted to hard work as Cox, plunging into long meetings with lawyers and investigators, obviously anxious to dispel any suspicions that he had taken the job to call off the hounds. "Press on," Jaworski said repeatedly. "Make your own judgments...
...Warmer and Warmer. What would happen if man ever interfered drastically with this process? Meteorologist Francis K. Davis, who is dean of Drexel University's College of Science in Philadelphia, warns of some frightening consequences. Unable to shake off their heat, he says, the tropics might become warmer and warmer. Simultaneously, the polar regions would slowly become colder. Eventually, both areas would expand, relentlessly shrinking the thickly populated temperate zones between them...
When it was first announced last summer, the $1.1 billion grain sale to the Soviet Union was almost universally applauded. It promised to be a boon for U.S. farmers, a welcome assist to the nation's balance of payments and a step toward warmer relations between East and West. For all its genuine long-term benefits, however, the largest two-nation grain deal in history has produced a bumper crop of trouble. Now, as public discontent grows over rising food prices, the Administration's feckless handling of the transaction is being widely condemned...
...happiest when I can light my American cigarette with a Russian match," he once joked. But Moscow's nearly $1.5 billion in military and economic aid over the past 20 years far outdistanced Washington's $500 million, and inevitably the flame of the match grew a little warmer than the glow of the cigarette. The Soviet Union and India became the first countries to recognize the new government last week. In Washington, the State Department said that it had recognition under consideration...