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...school's efforts to improve discipline. At least four members also belonged to a Paschal organization called the Ambassadors, a now disbanded group of 29 top seniors assigned to patrolling the campus and encouraging others to attend classes. Legion members, mostly wealthy youngsters from prominent families, prowled less well-to-do neighborhoods at night, firing shots at one student's home, exploding a pipe bomb on another's car. A fire bomb tossed at a black student's house failed to hurt anyone only because it fell short and ignited in the front yard. Said a classmate: "These pillars...
...well-to-do family, Mengele studied medicine in Frankfurt, specializing in genetics. During the war, he was sent to do research at Auschwitz. His crimes there were prominently mentioned at the 1945-46 International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg and, more recently, at a hearing in Jerusalem when his victims gave awful witness to his experiments, particularly on twins. They included trying to turn children's eyes blue by injecting dye, exchanging blood between twins and exposing victims to severe radiation...
...picture is not without incident. As World War I flickers through the Texas consciousness in newsreels and letters from the front, the people of Harrison wage a losing battle against influenza. Horace Robedaux (William Converse-Roberts), a clothier who fell in love with a well-to-do girl, is anxious about being sent to the war; he sees conscription as desertion of his wife Lizzie (Hallie Foote), his infant daughter and the baby on the way. While Lizzie's winsome wastrel of a brother (Matthew Broderick) gets into trouble with gambling debts and a pregnant girlfriend, Horace falls victim...
Spock was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1903, the oldest of six children of a well-to-do railroad lawyer and his wife. The home was "child-centered" and loving, he says, but his mother was a "fiercely opinionated, moralistic, rather tyrannical person." Young Ben and his siblings ate separately from their parents, had to be in bed by 6:45 each evening and were even forbidden to eat certain foods, such as bananas, until they were twelve. This had the predictable result of inducing a certain amount of bananaphobia as the twelfth birthday approached. Spock concludes: "There must...
...budget also calls for an increase in the cost of Medicare premiums paid by retirees: they would rise from 25% of the total cost of medical expenses to 35% after five years. Says Meyer: "That's not a lot for the well-to-do, but for the average elderly citizen, it's substantial." States that have large pockets of the elderly, such as Florida and South Carolina, are particularly concerned about the limits the budget will also place on federal Medicaid payments, which are given only to the poor. The new plan would cap federal payments to states...