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...Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio...
...comprehend the results of the election, it is necessary to understand some of the underlying factors which have made Cleveland politics so volatile and unpredictable. The infamous Cuyahoga River, distinguished by its ability to catch five, dividers the city east-west, black-white. Some 40 per cent of Cleveland's eligible voters are black, and almost all of them reside on the East Side. There is very little interaction across the river in this polarized community. In 1967, and again in 1969, Stokes was elected mayor in close two-man races by carrying a solid 95 per cent...
...publishing firm, brought out a book called Nursery Rhymes/For the Times. Sample: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater,/ Had a wife and wouldn't keep her;/ Her departure was most urgent,/ She kept washing with detergent." On a dare, an Ohio college student swam across Ohio's super-polluted Cuyahoga River-but only after donning a rubber wet suit and having himself inoculated against diseases that might be lurking in the brownish waters. "It wasn't the cold so much," he said afterward, "but the dirt and smell...
...still do not have their standards fully approved by federal regulators. In addition, Washington has tried to talk offenders into compliance, a process that usually drags on for years. Meantime, the list of gravely contaminated waterways grows. Among the worst: the Houston Ship Canal, plus numerous rivers-the Buffalo, Cuyahoga, Escambia, Passaic, Merrimack, Rouge and Ohio...
Across town, another group of 1400 people was meeting. They came from across the country. These people were considerably younger than those who sat at the tables in the Grand Ballroom. They were meeting in the auditoriums and classrooms of the Cuyahoga Community College. Their reason for gathering was to attend a National Emergency Conference Against the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam...