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...Birmingham, Ala., blacks have elected a black mayor and wield much more power than in the days of the celebrated civil rights crusades. Yet black anger at the white-dominated police force is almost as intense as it was when Police Commissioner Bull Connor and his snarling dogs gained national notoriety...
...those fields and others closely related, unemployment is indeed soaring. Michigan Budget Director Gerald Miller expects the jobless rate in his state to jump to 15% or 16% by next month. Says June Collier, president of National Industries, a Montgomery, Ala., firm that makes electrical equipment used by Ford and Chrysler: "In the next couple of months we can see the unemployment rate hitting the 15% mark...
...enjoying something of a boom due to prosperous high-technology firms. An official of Raytheon, the flourishing electronics firm near Boston, says, "The level of our unemployment is lost in the noise. It's hardly worth talking about." Frank Whitfield, vice president of Whitfield Pickle Co. in Montgomery, Ala., says his only problem is that he cannot get enough cucumbers. "At my plant we let 77 people go. It was not because of the economy but because we cannot get raw materials." In California the aerospace industry has seldom been hotter. Says William Perreault, vice president of Lockheed Corp...
Kennedy got an ugly reminder of this hostility last week during a brief side trip to Birmingham, Ala. Hecklers there repeatedly interrupted his speech, jeering "You're a murderer" and waved signs that asked HOW CAN YOU RESCUE THE COUNTRY WHEN YOU COULDN'T RESCUE MARY JO? When Kennedy said that he favored handgun registration in part because "my family has been touched by violence," the hecklers cheered and applauded...
Faith McDuffie Tuscaloosa, Ala...