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Special Magic. Steer wrestlers, whose goal essentially is to pin cattle to the ground in the fastest possible time, engage in hand-to-horn combat with animals four times their size. Calf ropers have developed a special magic with a lasso-to say nothing of training their horses to keep the rope taut while the roper ties together three of the calf s legs...
Government employees have been growing increasingly militant for more than a decade. In 1960 there were only 15 strikes involving 1,700 federal, state and local workers, v. 375 strikes affecting 142,100 workers in 1972. The 700,000 member A.F.S.C.M.E. is the fastest-growing labor union, gaining 1,000 new members a week. Its leaders are lobbying hard in Congress for passage of a law that would guarantee public workers (except policemen and firemen) the right to strike. Meanwhile, an increasing number of local governments are in a predicament: in order to finance the pay boosts workers are demanding...
...AFSCME is the fastest-growing union in the AFL-CIO, and its militant leaders are determined to fight hard for higher pay for its 700,000 members. The union's goals appeal to municipal employees, especially policemen, who resent laws restricting the right of public servants to be on strike. Said one Baltimore cop with 17 years on the force: "I've bled for this city. I've been through riots and fires, but the people don't seem to care. Well, it's time they gave something back...
GLITTER TRIPPERS. Glitter stars do not seem so much to have created their fandom as to have been created by it. The fastest-growing audience in rock dotes on the finery of such brocade, sequin, mascara-and rouge-wearing performers as Todd Rundgren, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper and the New York Dolls. Occasionally a glitter singer like England's bisexual David Bowie is actually good. Mostly, though, admits the Dolls' David Johansen, "the whole glitter trip is just jive." A concert can also be simply an excuse for youngsters to come out for a reasonably harmless masquerade party...
...what it is not to have and not to be allowed to get." Blacks buy 23% of all shoes sold in the U.S., 25% of all musical cassettes, more than 50% of Scotch whisky. Taking trips to the Caribbean, Mexico, Europe and Africa, they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the travel industry. Trans World Airlines offers special black tours of Europe that feature trips to nonwhite communities, visits to African museums, and cocktail parties with black servicemen and expatriates...