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...Francis W. Hatch Jr. '46--the quiet gentleman from Beverly Farms who wants to be governor of Massachusetts--are not what you would expect. The walls are yellow and peeling--just a little hole in the wall on 14 Beacon Street. One switchboard, six telephones, no hold buttons, no cotton ribbed turtlenecks--just a bunch of kids, sitting around stuffing envelopes. There is one sign on the wall. "Make the King the Ruler of Massachusetts for the next four years, and you'll think Henry the VIII was a nice...
Events abroad, also well beyond Carter's control, had conspired to aggravate inflation. OPEC'S quintupling of oil prices inspired the money-poor but materials-rich nations of the Southern Hemisphere to pump up prices for commodities as disparate as copper, tin, rubber, jute, cotton, bauxite, coffee, cocoa, tea, sugar. Instant communications-TV and transistor radios-spread the message of the good life. People in Timbuktu no less than in Toledo demanded more-more than society could reasonably produce. Communication, education and sophistication enabled the world in the 1970s to virtually defeat smallpox-and helped make just about...
Stratton moves on to a corner of the third floor where the 13 female trainees are quartered. Twenty additional women are due soon. "I'm not looking forward to it," says Stratton. "I end up telling them about Tampax and the Pill and making sure they wear cotton underwear." Despite her own youth, Stratton thinks she is in danger of becoming a surrogate mother to the teen-age recruits. Her solution: "I'm too much of a bitch figure to be a mother figure...
...submachine gun for $6.25. A Shanghai-made black-and-white TV set costs around $428, a solid-state radio $33. A nice chess set goes for $8.50, good basketball shoes for $5.25. The high-collared Chung-shan chuang, the so-called Mao jacket, made of heavy blue or gray cotton and well stitched, is a bargain at $11; a matching Mao cap costs $1.50. Friendship Stores in each city, catering to foreigners, offer more exotic but in many cases bargains-priced goods such as embroideries, porcelain, jade jewelry, furs, silks, scroll paintings and antique furniture. The attendants seem scrupulously honest...
...public facilities in the 1960s, but as soon as Hines was indicted in June, racial tension began rising. Demonstrators from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference appeared in front of the city hall and put up tents on the grass. Hines' arrest was "a setup," said the Rev. R.B. Cotton-reader, a leader of the S.C.L.C. "Decatur was being pressed for an arrest and conviction for those rapes." Then came the Ku Klux Klan, which set up its own tents. On Aug. 14 it burned a cross before the civic center...