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From Southern segregationists Coles turned to some Northerners who are often as hostile toward blacks as Southerners. In The Middle Americans, published last year, Coles describes the policemen, firemen, bank tellers, typists, storekeepers, telephone repairmen and others who make up the nation's working class. Using words like backlash, ethnic blocs, bigots or hardhats to characterize these men and women turns millions of people into "them," Coles believes, creating "one more 'group' to be pitied or exploited or scorned." Each Middle American wants to be judged on his own merits, as an officer of the law complained with great clarity...
...approving most of a contract that would provide some 180,000 railroad workers with wage and benefit increases of 42% over 42 months. The settlement once again makes a mockery of the official guideline of 5.5%, although not quite so badly as in some previous cases. The conductors, firemen and brakemen agreed to changes in a long list of make-work rules that will substantially increase productivity, thus fulfilling one of the few valid criteria for seeking pay raises above the guidelines...
...most suburbs, which are already paying heavily for education, the Fleischmann recommendations would slightly lower property tax rates. But property taxes would go up in most cities, which must spend far more of their tax revenues on welfare, firemen and police than the suburbs do. Even though cities would get increased aid for their disadvantaged children, New York City Budget Director David Grossman observed: "Any commission that imposes extra burdens on the city of New York for the benefit of well-off suburbs cannot be serious." The suburbs, on the other hand, had a complaint of their own about...
...Several times a year, some angry Roman or other makes his way to the top of the Colosseum, the dome of St. Peter's or the monument to King Victor Emmanuel II, where he stands or sits for a while in a public expression of outrage. Police and firemen are so nervous about the popularity of monument perching that last week they scrambled onto the dome of the Pantheon to rescue Liza Barkley, 19, a tourist from Philadelphia. Liza was hustled off to a psychiatric clinic before she could explain, through an interpreter, that she was an architecture student...
...Christmas." In those days Flip was a quick, thin child with a runny nose and a big appetite; his brothers and sisters called him "Tin Can" because he ate so much. He used to hang around the fire station on his block, gagging it up with idle firemen. "He was always joking, always funny," says Fireman Ed Dawson...