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Unlike political families, we usually have small salaries, seldom own our homes and maintain a minimum of health benefits. But the great comfort we enjoy is the precious "retirement plan" from our "Employer," with its eternal wages. That is something politics can never offer...
...violence was dismaying, but to those who know Boston, it should not have been surprising. The city's image as the Athens of America is a rosy distortion. Boston's renowned academic and cultural institutions seldom touch the lives of most of its 624,900 residents, who are mainly lower-middle class in income and outlook, fiercely loyal to their own ethnic backgrounds and neighborhoods. "Boston is a racist city and always has been," says Boston College Law Professor Leonard Strickman...
Medicine, dispensed by the proverbial Florence Nightingale across the river, is still a novelty--therefore to be avoided. Prescriptions are seldom followed and infant mortality is high. Several times a week, the familiar orange helicopter from the hospital at Blanc Sablon, the border town between Quebec and Labrador, lands on the riverbank to collect and deposit patients on the orders of the nurse. It is not unusual for parents to try to convince her that healthy babies are in fact sick, thereby placing the child in the hands of the hospital and reducing the burden of extra dependents until...
Though the ministers often cut wide swaths in the nightclubs of the various world capitals in which they meet, the full-time secretariat bureaucrats seldom mix with Vienna's society. Its officers seem to shun publicity, realizing that their cause evokes little popular sympathy outside the oil-producing countries...
...week appeared to be Harold Wilson, who would like to gain his fourth victory as Labor Party leader and thus become the winningest Prime Minister of this century. Slimmer, tanned and far more confident than during his lackluster February campaign, Wilson, 58, this time carefully husbanded his energy; he seldom made more than one or two appearances a night, and then only to packed gatherings of the party faithful...