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More than 130 union supporters carrying bottles of champagne and noise makers crowded into two school buses and drove downtown yesterday afternoon to file their petition for a union election...
When the buses arrived at the Thomas P. O'Neill Federal Building in downtown Boston, where the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has its regional headquarters, the workers walked into the building cheering, "When do we want? A union. When do we want...
...downtown Greensboro, a marker notes the 1960 Woolworth's sit-ins by black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students. "Sure, you can't come in here as a black man and not feel a sense of history," says Terry Woods, a technician, as he sits at a once segregated lunch counter. "We get along with whites here," says Woods, 33. "I am not going to vote for a man because of the color of his skin." But, he adds, "I do like Jesse, because I like to think that one day a black man will be there...
...week, however, as floods and mudslides struck hill-hugging shantytowns and roared into busy neighborhoods below. One slide drove more than 500 tons of mud and rock onto a clinic for the aged, killing 25 patients and staff members. Rush-hour traffic braked to a halt as floodwaters covered downtown thoroughfares, causing ten-mile...
...which dream? Damon Runyon did not write stories about office workers. The would-be master builders of Times Square seem to be ignoring the lessons learned in scores of American cities during the past two decades, where downtown neighborhoods were ripped apart wholesale as a way to "renew" them. In almost every instance where a cluster of high-rise office towers replaces smaller commercial buildings, a kind of dead zone results. Street life becomes a daylight affair. "Look at 8 o'clock at night on Sixth Avenue," says Actress Colleen Dewhurst, an antidevelopment activist, alluding to the dreary wall...