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Shrewd Sense. After women gained the vote in 1920 Miss Luscomb became a charter member of the League of Women Voters. She cast her first presidential ballot in 1920 for Socialist Candidate Eugene Debs. Soon she was involved in the labor movement, inspecting the shops operated by the garment trade. Miss Luscomb's shrewd sense of revolutionary tactics-which are still being copied by her spiritual descendants- helped rectify dismal working conditions. "I got four women who were distinguished Bostonians to go to the factories with me. When the newspapers printed their report, believe me, the state officials came...
...environmentalists designed the suit to force TVA-whose charter includes conservation-to use its influence as a major coal buyer to control the surface miners' practices. The suit names the Kentucky Oak Mining Co. as TVA's principal supplier in eastern Kentucky. Although state reclamation officials have praised Kentucky Oak's efforts to plant apple and peach trees on stripped land and its experiments with terracing, successful reclamation is extremely difficult on the steep slopes. Indeed, residents have few kind words for the company. "They've destroyed the mountains," says Paul Ashley, a leading local opponent...
...where they sell for at least $1.30 a pint. Swiss customers get their deliveries the day they arrive from a trucking service that meets the flights at the airport in Geneva. Robert Flatoe, an American living in Frankfurt, who has become the leading European importer of strawberries, plans to charter about 20 Boeing 707s this spring to carry 1,600,000 Ibs. from California to the Continent. There is a growing demand among dessert-loving West Germans for U.S. strawberries: Hamburg's Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten prefers serving them because, says Chef Oskar Behrmann, "they have the best aroma." Between...
Died. Adolf A. Berle Jr., 76, lawyer, economist, diplomat and charter member of F.D.R.'s New Deal Brain Trust; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Brilliant, often acerbic, Berle passed Harvard's entrance exams at 12, graduated cum laude from Harvard Law at the age of 21 and after the war opened a successful law practice that he continued until his death. But it was through Government service that he attained national prominence. As counsel to F.D.R.'s Reconstruction Finance Corp. from 1933-38, Berle helped shape much of the legislation designed to reform banking, railroading...
...somewhat idealistic hope that residents of a depressed area, if given the funds, could devise programs to upgrade their neighborhoods, all with a bare minimum of outside assistance. In Cambridge, more than in most areas, the compact size of the selected neighborhood, in addition to a carefully-phrased original charter, provided an unusual amount of true resident autonomy and direction of the program. But even here the agency was really run by the professional staff of outsiders and pseudo-residents, who, although sincere, creative, and effective, are not products of the area they champion. Model Cities in its two years...