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Screenplay by EARL HAMMER...
...weeks ago Fruehauf Corp the producer of truck trailers, threw in the hammer and joined a long parade of big companies out of the modular-housing field. In the last year or so ITT Levitt, Florida Gas Co., Potlatch Forests Inc., Hercules Inc. and Wickes Corp along with a score of smaller firms, also pulled put of the industry. Last year Florida's Behring Corp. cut its losses and closed down the nation's largest house-building plant. Beset by production and marketing troubles, another industry leader, Stirling Homex, crashed into bankruptcy seven months...
...Just like a fish hook," he said and took a hammer from his overalls. He drove one of the notorious nails into an upright beam in the barn, up to a quarter-inch from its head...
...pull that out," he said, handing me the hammer. I pulled it out. It seemed eight times harder than a normal nail...
...which Monro has uncovered is a reading list of black authors--Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Booker T. Washington and others. "Forget all these ideas that Hamlet is culturally useful," Monro says. "The students need to digest and think about these men and hammer out their feelings in discussions with their peers. Every young black person has awareness built into him. One thing the black college can do is shape this thing. Black literature and black history get right down to the fundamental problem of racism, how it has affected these people...