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Most Saturday mornings in Bremen, Ind., the regulars gather at Zentz's Barber Shop on Plymouth St. to talk politics. "There's a lot of pretty important decisions that are made in the barber shop," says proprietor John Zentz, chairman of Marshall County's Republican Party. The decisions aren't always earth-shaking, but we get some things done without making a fuss. "Barbering ($4 a cut) doesn't interfere. "Oh, my customers are extremely tolerant," Zentz explains. "I just keep on working and I guess they trust...
...effort: "I studied my rear end off." He amassed mammoth outlines of lectures and readings, particularly in American history, which became a new obsession. "I loved it once I got used to it. It was just exceedingly exciting. I ended up doing quite well for a guy from Bremen, Ind...
...Reagan Administration's callousness, and dismayed at the lackluster response of the Democratic Party, which they have faithfully supported since the New Deal. "Blacks have a choice: to come out fighting or to come out voting," Williams says. "The intelligent choice is to vote." Adds Gary, Ind., Mayor Richard Hatcher: "Blacks have finally reached the point of political maturity where they see the power in the ballot...
...speech clearly excited the conventiongoers, who had been longing for something to cheer about, but the mood of elation quickly faded. Said Richard Gaskill, a delegate from an International Harvester plant in Fort Wayne, Ind.: "It's pretty hard for me to be optimistic these days because they are closing my plant. I think the general feeling is that our people have taken it on the chin long enough...
...Elektra/Asylum label was moved aside in January, and the subsidiary's headquarters was transferred from Los Angeles to New York City to cut expenses. The CBS/Records Group, which together with Warner commands 45% of the market, closed down a record-and tape-manufacturing plant in Terre Haute, Ind., and has laid off some 1,500 employees. Says Group President Walter Yetnikoff: "It used to be that if any artist said, 'I want a billboard on Sunset Strip,' we'd say, Fine.' But not any more...