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Devoted to education for their own children, South Milwaukeeans feel outraged at campus demonstrators. "They should be thankful for the opportunity to go to school and have a better life," says Mayor Chester Grobschmidt, 50. The mayor can speak from personal experience. He did not attend college, and he earns his living making plastic parts for Bucyrus-Erie Co.. the world's largest manufacturer of excavating equipment. Nearly half of South Milwaukee's labor force works in Bucyrus-Erie's clangorous plant near the center of town. The factory has been running round the clock seven...
Prime Obsession. Still, the people of South Milwaukee worry deeply that hard times might reach them. The combination of inflation, unemployment and rising taxes leaves them bewildered, angry and feeling helpless. "Our paychecks are bigger, but we take home less," says Mayor Grobschmidt, articulating his town's prime obsession. "Everybody's digging at us-the Federal Government, the state, the county. Those who've got money already seem to be getting ahead. Those who haven't, and that's most of us, are falling behind...
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