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Scrappy and streetwise, Young was raised in the city's notorious "Black Bottom" ghetto. At 19, he found a job at the Ford plant in River Rouge and plunged into union and civil rights organizing. His union activities got him sacked from job after job, and his left-wing politics also proved too strong for the United Auto Workers union, which forced him out of his post as chapter secretary in 1947. By the time he won a seat in the state legislature in 1964, Young had moved toward the political center, but he still harbors memories. Says Kirk...
...between the image he desperately wants to project and a reality that is considerably less grand, Richard Pryor has created, in such otherwise indifferent movies as Silver Streak and Stir Crazy, what may be the current screen's most appealing comic persona. His style may come from the ghetto, but his screen character is an everyman offering a sometimes poignant, but always funny, commentary on male fantasies of knowledgeability and bravado...
...friends killed by overdoses and by the cops. I wanted to be involved in social art. I love coming here. I can't leave any stone unresolved." Like medieval apprentices, Poni's fellow workers range in age from 20 to 35. Most came from the ghetto and have some interest in art. A few gave up good jobs to join the project. To work so hard for $7.50 an hour with wife and children to support, or parents, is itself an inspired commitment. Like the man who chose them, they all have a touch of grace and gentleness...
...Gastarbeiter (guest workers) and their families. Their close-knit ghettos near industrial centers would have given Agca plenty of cover, as they have for other extremists in exile. A contact with the P.F.L.P. would have been possible in such a ghetto. West German authorities say that militant Turkish right-wingers there have sent followers to Lebanon for training by the P.F.L.P. Turkish officials believe that members of Agca's own National Action Party were trained in Palestinian camps in Lebanon...
...other black journalists, says the Post's publisher, Donald Graham, is "utterly outrageous." Some of the Post's black journalists doubted that a dope pusher would "shoot up" a child or himself in front of a reporter, particularly a reporter without street smarts who sashayed through the ghetto in designer jeans...