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...search of a "good job." Today he lives just over the poverty line?$150 a month as a janitor keeps him a scant penny above the $1,710 poverty line for a single man in an urban area. Short (5 ft. 6 in.) and lean in his baggy denim trousers, woolen work jacket and purple longshoreman's cap, he used to support a wife and five children. He and his wife were divorced a few years ago. "All that hard work, and I wind up a poor man," he says. "The poor family, it wants the same things...
...grey, two-story building looks no different than it did in World War II, when it was a factory turning out bombsights. Inside, the proletarian theme continues with chicken-wirescreened windows, secondhand tables bought at auction for $5 apiece, and bartenders who are togged out in dungarees and blue denim work shirts...
Dressed in a white shirt, waist-hugging black jacket and black tie, Berry seems grotesquely out of place. Behind him stands The Butter, squirming self-consciously in non-conformist natty tweed, marred corduroy and blue denim...
Martin Luther King, one of few winners of the Nobel Peace Prize to admit to even a single incarceration, marched off to jail last week for at least the 15th time. Garbed in his regular Bastille Day uniform-denim shirt, sweater and blue work pants-King flew from Atlanta to Birmingham, Ala., toting three books, the Bible, John Kenneth Galbraith's The New Industrial State, and William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner. He was whisked by sheriff's deputies to the Bessemer jail, about twelve miles from Birmingham in a Ku Klux Klan stronghold...
...There was one that had been raised the day before on the very spot where the U.S. flag was burned on April 15. Another had been flown over the 1st Marine Division's headquarters in South Viet Nam. Teen-aged boys had them sewn on the backs of denim jackets, and every toddler seemed to be clutching a flag. There were even a couple of flags attached to the chutes of two skydivers who parachuted into Central Park. Though New York's police conspicuously sympathized with the march-1,000 off-duty cops donned uniforms to take part...