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...Pittsburgh protests and similar outbursts in Chicago reflect the increasing determination of embittered blacks to force organized labor to drop its color lines. Negroes have picked the nation's 17 construction unions as the prime target because most of them still practice flagrant racial discrimination. The protesters' ultimate aim is to rouse enough public and political pressure to compel all unions to give blacks equal access to skilled, well-paid jobs. In Buffalo and Chicago, the N.A.A.C.P. this month filed the first of a threatened series of federal lawsuits to block publicly financed construction until unions, contractors...
...most Harvard freshmen are left with very little to do. There are always drugs, of course. As long as you're not a flagrant pusher. Harvard will keep you safe from the nares. (In fact, I'm sure many an administrator welcomed the advent of grass as one way to defuse revolutions.) Consequently, grass is plentiful, and cheap, mostly sold by Cliffies who don't need the money because their fathers live in Westchester and have all the money they need. But even drugs are becoming passe. They used to be the major social determinant of freshman year. There were...
...ballot in the union's Dec. 9 election. Boyle was nominated by 1,056 locals. Yablonski plans to push for democratization of what he calls "the most notoriously dictatorial labor union in America." In three detailed complaints filed with the Labor Department, Yablonski has accused the union of "flagrant" and "continuous" violations of federal laws that are intended to assure democratic process in union elections. Among the charges: fraud, trickery, bribery, embezzlement and illegal use of union funds to promote Boyle's candidacy. So far, the Labor Department has taken no action on the complaints...
...Uses. Since such laws are usually invoked only in cases of flagrant indiscretion, there is little public pressure to abolish them. But the laws are by no means dead, and new uses are occasionally found for them. Recently New Jersey successfully invoked its rarely used 179-year-old law prohibiting fornication. The case involved a pregnant mother on welfare and her former lover. Though the defense counsel argued that being pregnant when on welfare was the woman's real offense, the court gave her a suspended sentence of six months and placed her on probation for two years...
Next to inefficient workers, Decio abhors waste. He believes that its most flagrant form is the payment of interest on borrowed money. Thus, Skyline's expansion has all come out of profits; it has no outstanding debt at all. Because of the tremendous need for low-cost housing, Decio can name his own terms. When his dealers order mobile homes, for example, they must pay in advance -an unusual practice in any industry where each unit for sale represents a large investment of cash...