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...briefly during the Depression, and then went into eclipse again during the long period of post-World War II prosperity and contentment. In recent years, however, confidence and complacency have been shaken by the Viet Nam War, explosive social and racial tensions and the youth revolt. All these have bred a deep unease and an anti-Establishment mood in which the nation's institutions are undergoing tough scrutiny...
...others, it dropped 200 engineers in Chicago and 100 scientists, mostly Ph.D.s, at Monroeville, Pa. Two years ago U.S. Steel had 13 administrative vice presidents and 45 garden-variety v.p.s; now the respective totals are four and 38. At Jones & Laughlin Steel's Pittsburgh works, job cuts have bred a strange situation: some high-seniority steelworkers have been kept on only by being bumped to the lower-paying plant cafeteria, where they have replaced waitresses who in turn have been shunted to menial jobs in the mill so that the lowest-seniority workers could...
...mother was an ecologist before her time, and bred in me this feeling about land being precious, in some way the ground of our physical being...
...improvement in public services. In many cases, the nation's streets are dirtier, its mass transit more decrepit, its public hospitals more understaffed, its streets more crime-ridden today than in decades. The knowledge that they are paying more and more for less and less service has bred in many citizens a suspicion that they are being cheated, and has fanned a mood of rebellion...
...shared hardships and sense of common injustice has bred an intense loyalty among the miners, even if they blame their union in part for letting their numbers, and their wages, decline. The miners live in tight communities of grimy, brick, colliery-owned apartments, which only recently were provided with indoor plumbing. The workers have their own traditions and brass bands, their own pneumoconiosis clinics-and a common dedication to left-wing politics. But never before have they been able to force their will upon the nation. When the men first threatened to strike, said Tom Nicholson, the secretary...