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...newspapers. Black Africa, which had fewer than 400,000 radios in 1955, has at least 6,000,000 today. In rice field or rain forest, compound or kraal, the mere possession of a transistor radio confers status on its owner-who has perhaps gone hungry to make his down payment, and worked a little harder to keep up the installments. Thus, even before a sound emerges from it, the radio has exerted a social force. And once it is turned on, it is left on from morning to night, pouring out fuel for hopes and dreams. The possibilities that exist...
Hollomon said yesterday, "my sources indicate that the Connecticut-Washington suite was payed for by the Democratic National Committee." Dennis R. Kanin '68, chairman of the Massachusetts College Young Democrats, called the alleged payment "highly irregular" last night...
...hardly thought so during the years she was married to him, Marina Oswald now figures that everything Assassin Lee Oswald ever touched has turned to gold. Oswald's Russian-born widow, 25, now married to Texas Saloonkeeper Kenneth Porter, is suing the U.S. Government for $500,000 in payment for Lee's confiscated personal effects-a treasure trove including old Christmas cards, Russian maps of Moscow and Minsk, his Marine Corps discharge and an Oct. 20, 1963 copy of the Worker that Marina thinks collectors would dearly love to own. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Mighell conceded that Marina...
...seem to be all there. In a suit filed on behalf of the estate, bank lawyers allege that Fisher has already been well compensated for his services to Miss Atwood. Soon after he became the lawyer for her and her brother Edwin, he persuaded them that in payment for work on a lawsuit they should sign over what amounted to 35% of their King Ranch inheritance. For other legal work, he got 10% more. That left Alice and Edwin with 55% of the inheritance - 27½% apiece. Fisher had 45%, half in his name, half in his wife...
...roots party workers, and even those who concede that he might not be the ideal standard bearer say nonetheless that they will vote for him in Miami Beach in deference to his experience and unflagging service. Nixon himself rejects the idea that any man should get the nomination in payment for his party labors, insists that it should go to the strongest candidate. And who might that be? Says Nixon: "In a World Series game, they often call on the seasoned hitter whose re cent batting average isn't so good, but who is reliable in a pinch...