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...President had publicly committed himself to a meaningful blow against construction inflation. "There will be action," he promised. Baseball Fan Nixon added that if Hodgson "struck out, then we'll be up to bat." After the President took his swing last week, A.F.L.-C.l.O. President George Meany condemned the move as "punitive" and "unfair" because it did not restrain the rising price of land or materials, or limit profits. "Disappointing, inadequate and totally ineffective," said William E. Dunn, executive director of the Associated General Contractors of America. "The suspension may have some long-range results, but it will...
...foghorns. Hill dwellers peered down at the San Fernando Valley and were shocked at the sight of fiery blue arcs rising from electrical explosions and plumes of water erupting from broken mains. On the valley floor, Jack Speyer dashed from his second-floor bedroom in Glendale brandishing a baseball bat, certain that a burglar was ransacking the rooms below. Twelve days overdue in her pregnancy, a woman near the quake's center knew only that labor had finally begun. At a 24-hour supermarket in the town of San Fernando, Clerk Marty Federico clung to a metal rail until...
...from this is one we know too well already. Bureaucracy and confrontation polities don't mix. The City is essentially Nixon-style political oppression on a smaller scale, and no one knows if rent control will ever bring relief to tenants or simply continue as a political ball to bat around...
...full-time lawyer for students. During his first six months, Jim Boyle, 26, a Texas law-school graduate, earned his modest pay ($12,500 a year) by helping more than 300 students who complained of gouging by off-campus merchants and landlords. Then two months ago, Boyle went to bat for the Gay Liberation Front, which had been denied recognition as a campus club...
GEORGE JACKSON. As a small boy growing up in one of Chicago's black ghettos, Jackson was so intrigued by his first sight of a white skin that he walked up and touched it. His curiosity earned him a swift blow on the head with a baseball bat. Since that time, Jackson, whose brother Jonathan was cut down while leading a raid on the Marin County courthouse last August, has battled white society. For eleven years, Jackson, 29, has served time in California prisons for the $70 robbery of a gas station - 7½ years of that time...