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Economists have found some evidence for the politicians' bromide that people vote their pocketbooks. In one study, Robert Wescott and Miriam Goldberg of the Wharton Econometrics consulting firm in Philadelphia compared the outcomes of presidential elections from 1948 to 1980 with what was happening to real disposable income, which is the amount of money people have after taxes, adjusted for inflation. Over those years, the average annual rise in real disposable income was 3.8%. Wescott and Goldberg discovered that, coincidence or not, whenever the growth in income topped 3.8% for the twelve months before the voting, the party...
...kids and De Gaulle's cops. On Jones' track record one might expect Harry to be hero-protagonist. Instead, the book produces Jonathan James Hartley III, a creaky, equivocal observer-narrator who could easily have been borrowed (in intent if not execution) from Henry James or Glenway Wescott...
...other hand, John Zink, Korczak Ziolkowski, Clint Wescott, and Jim West (to name a few) are truly eccentric. Surely none of these men are trying to convince anyone else of the advantages of their own particular ways of life. They are simply "people who consistently follow their own seemingly exotic standards" and are clearly not bidding for attention. Consideration must be given to the motives and methods of the individual in relation to existing social standards and how he wishes to affect them. If he wishes to affect them at all, he is not merely eccentric, but is in fact...
...that he roams the U.S. to find and ride them. An Arkansas housewife fills her house with flocks of birds that swirl through the rooms; she spends $200 a month to feed them-not to mention the cleaning bills. For ten years, a 52-year-old man named Clint Wescott camped in a weed-choked field in Los Angeles. Last year, when a New York lawyer tried to give him nearly $20,000 for the sale of the gas station that he had owned and abandoned, Wescott refused the money...
...sixth match, Yale's Bob Haar quickly downed Dick Appleby. Appleby, however, redeemed himself by winning the number one doubles match along with teammate Brian Davis. The two Crimson juniors, after starting slowly, edged a strong Yale combo of Brooks and Wescott...