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There are other reasons, too, which do not find their cure in capital punishment. In the case of immigrants, the youths in question are dislocated from one society and placed flush in the middle of another. Given the impoverished community in which they live, given the economic insecurity confronting their parents, it becomes easier to see why the process of readjustment often manifests itself in socially unacceptable forms...
...Alma, a spinsterish ex-schoolteacher. Each day is an agreeable carbon of the one before. Boyd grumbles contentedly about Alma's bluntness, stinginess and love of gossip. Alma gets comfortably cross at Boyd's deafness, his lack of interest in scandal, his irritating habit of forgetting to flush the toilet...
Michigan: In one of the most strongly unionized states in the land, Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers are driving hard for Kennedy in the local halls and on the assembly lines, will pay thousands of members to stay away from their jobs and flush out the vote on Election Day. Detroit's Wayne County is the most heavily Democratic area in the North, and local polls give wide leads to Kennedy among its many Negroes (86% for Kennedy), Jews (80%), Catholics (79%), unskilled laborers (69%), immigrants (63%). But the Republicans are equally strong outstate, and better organized...
...buyers last week was the Bank of Italy, flush with the dollars from Olympic Games' tourists; it seemed to be hedging its bet against any further cheapening of the dollar. Other major purchasers were Middle Eastern residents, panicky over the Jordanian bombings, who were converting their currencies into the safest of all assets. The rising purchases and rising price sounded a new warning to the U.S. Treasury, which has been steadily losing gold for three years. This drain, as Chase Manhattan Bank Vice Chairman David Rockefeller said last week, though no cause for immediate alarm, is "perhaps the most...
Everything about Abo School will have a dual function. Designed for 540 children, it will readily shelter 2,000 persons. Flush with the ground, the 18-in. concrete roof will be a basketball court and a fallout filter. The two wells used for air conditioners can supply emergency drinking water. The lunch room will be stocked with a 14-day food supply, and cupboards throughout the 18-classroom building will contain 970 cots. Abo will also have a two-way radio, underground phone lines, radiation-measuring instruments, provisions for fire fighting, garbage disposal and a morgue...