Word: ashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Music Man, Gary, Ind., is not one of those garden spots that perennially win community-service awards. Indeed, it is in some aspects the very model of modern urban decay. Founded in 1906 by Industrialist Elbert H. Gary (who judiciously chose not to live there), it sits like an ash heap in the northwest corner of Indiana, a grimy, barren steel town. The sons and daughters of the Poles and Slovaks and Croats, who for generations have worked the foundries, form a decided white minority. Most of the blacks, who make up the town's majority, are law-abiding...
Charles H. Perkins '73 and Mitchell P. Ash, a graduate student in History, were elected last week to three-year terms by the lobby group's 12,000 Massachusetts members...
...Ash said he became active in Common Cause last year because "none of the major political parties in this country are capable of effecting any significant change in America's political structure...
...Ash said that Common Cause has represented its national membership of 200.000 by lobbying in Washington to support environmental legislation, bills to end the war, and women's rights, Perkins noted the Common Cause was the only son feminist organization its support the women's rights amendment...
...months since then, Litton's light has dimmed considerably. The company lost money during two quarters of its 1972 fiscal year, and will close the books later this month with what Ash now calls only a "small profit." The trouble stems in large part from the Pascagoula yard, which has produced a small armada of labor problems, construction delays, cost overruns-but so far very few ships...