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...first met Mike Dombrowski when we caddied together at a Chicago country club in the summer of '68. Now Mike shovels coke for $2.88 an hour at the big U.S. Steel South Works plant in South Chicago. Current sociology tells us that Mike should be "embourgeoised", satisfied with his job, bought off by the great material advances of the post-Depression...
...each having to tighten one bolt on an assembly line. Only 21 per cent of steelworkers interviewed in a study for the book said they would keep the same job if they could start all over. Such people are coming to see little future for their children. Mike Dombrowski is the third generation of his family to work for U.S. Steel...
...narrowly defining the reach of some Warren Court principles, the new majority may have rendered them virtually inoperative. At the height of Southern civil rights activism in 1965, for example, the Warren Court fashioned the so-called Dombrowski rule, which greatly increased the power of three-judge federal courts to halt allegedly unfair state prosecutions. This term the Burger Court rolled Dombrowski back, barring federal interference except in cases of a prosecutor's blatant bad faith or harassment, or when a state law is "flagrantly and patently violative of express constitutional prohibitions in every clause, sentence and paragraph...
Closer to the Nixon concept of the silent majority are the promoters of National Unity Week. This move was initiated by Edmund Dombrowski, an orthopedic surgeon from Redlands, Calif., and led by Show Business Celebrities Bob Hope and Art Linkletter. They sent telegrams urging almost all of the nation's mayors and governors to proclaim last week as "National Unity Week" and to ask their citizens to fly the flag, turn on car headlights, leave house lights on all weekend, pray for U.S. prisoners of war and sign petitions stating: "We are proud to be Americans. We support...
...Dombrowski, a Republican who voted for John Kennedy in 1960, had never organized anything bigger than a Fourth of July parade. But campus and peace demonstrators made him angry. He talked to a group of high school students in Redlands about Moratorium activities and found that they did not like being pressured into an "either/or proposition; either you are for or against the war." They felt that the President was doing all he could to end the war, but they did not want to have to parade in the streets to show their support. They preferred a more modest expression...