Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus it was not surprising that when the antibusing South Boston Information Center was set up this fall, 200 residents volunteered the first day. In an hour, notices of marches or meetings can be printed and hand-distributed to every house and apartment in Southie. "When we get our mind on something, the whole community pitches in," explained one resident. Says Harvard Historian Stephan Thernstrom: "The solidarity in South Boston is one of a people trapped there." The bitterest irony in Southie's implacable determination to keep blacks out of South Boston High is that many residents frankly concede...
...neared the end of his seven-day shuttle through the region last week, Kissinger tried to lighten the situation with some levity during a three-hour call on Algerian President Houari Boumedienne. "You should invite me to the summit," joked the Secretary of State. "I've met more Arab heads of state than some Arab foreign ministers." Kissinger obviously will not be welcome at Rabat, but he is confident that his gradualist strategy will be put forward by President Anwar Sadat of Egypt...
...student in the course, who preferred to remain unidentified, said he had heard the that exam had been submitted to the secretary at 9:30 a.m. yesterday, an hour-and-a-half before the scheduled class meeting...
When you add $.10 in increased wages to self dignity and self determination, the farm workers under UFW contract in 1970, were the "richest" in the world! Ferrara also fails to mention the increase to $2.41 per hour in 1973 under the UFW contracts; and, other U.S. Dept. of Agriculture statistics like: Infant Mortality in farm workers in 125% higher than the national rate; Maternal Mortality is 125% higher than the national rate; Influenza and Pneumonia is 200% higher than the national rate; TB is 260% higher than the national rate; and, the average life expectancy is only 49 years...
...Pirandello is best known for his somewhat stagey plays Henry IV, Six Characters in Search of an Author, and Right You Are [If You Think You Are], which pretty much made reality vs. appearance the central obsession of modern theater. Chee-Chee is austere (it lasts only a half hour) but full of depth. This is the kind of play--rarely performed pieces by important authors--that the Loeb Ex was meant for, and the production does everyone justice. At the Ex this Friday through Saturday...