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Going English. To achieve this lonely differentness, the Amish have had to keep family and community close-knit-an important factor in last week's decision. Unlike the Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana Amish communities, all large and long established, the Amish settlers in the rolling countryside around New Glarus (pop. 1,400) are a group of about 150 newcomers who began to drift into the area...
...their new plants started spinning out fibers at precisely the wrong time. U.S. imports of European fibers have sagged, partly because last year's currency realignments raised the dollar price, partly because U.S. firms are producing a larger percentage of the polyester filament used in popular jersey-knit textiles, previously a prime market for the Europeans. Last year also, when the Nixon Administration pressured Japan into clamping "voluntary" restraints on textile exports to the U.S., the Japanese redirected much of their sales drive to Europe. In Britain, Japan has won 20% of the market for some kinds...
George Corley Wallace's double-knit-clad workers do not talk about alienation. Their current word for the mood of the voters is "disenchantment." Another term at the Alabama Governor's Montgomery headquarters is "protracted politics"-not a bad description of Wallace's dogged, divisive presidential candidacy, now making its third appearance in eight years. Whatever it is, it is working: Hubert Humphrey edged him by a scant 5% margin in Indiana; George McGovern has carefully ducked him in Florida and Michigan, where busing is a hot issue; Scoop Jackson could never catch fire once Wallace...
...Cambridge-Somerville Area had a small loosely-knit collection of public and private mental health programs when the state established the Cambridge-Somerville Mental Health and Retardation Center on Sacramento Street in 1969. The Mental Health and Retardation Center has since given a needed boost to already existing community efforts by contributing money and staff, has started whole new programs, and has begun to coordinate services throughout the area. The Center now serves as the administrative focus for the whole Cambridge-Somerville Area, coordinating a comprehensive array of services for emotionally disturbed and mentally retarded people in eighteen locations...
There are other rules that, strictly observed, keep the Syndicate a tightly knit network closed to outsiders and so efficient that its activities-legal and illegal-are estimated to bring in more than $30 billion a year. The strength of the Mafia is based less on the corporate structure of a criminal organization than on the social organization of Sicily and southern Italy, whence most of the Mafiosi spring. There, notes Sociologist Francis Ianni, the rule of law is replaced by a social structure that is regulated by a code: each man must protect the family's honor...