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...United Farm Workers, (UFW) now runs a summer program, a tightly knit experience. The time is spent in a field office working with farmworkers in the central headquarters on administration, and in one of the cities in California on the boycott staff. The boycott staff was established in the late 1960's to bring economic pressure on the growers to pay the workers better and improve working conditions...
...read from the Bible, bowed their heads in the Oval Office, and prayed. All the while, the Budget Director's proud wife LaBelle insisted that her husband had brilliantly cleared himself of wrongdoing, and appealed directly to the President that her husband stay in office. But the close-knit Georgians turned in the end to the advice of shrewd Washington veterans and wisely ended Lance's eight-month career as Director of the Office of Management and Budget...
Besides the conditioning aspects of the camp, McCurdy claims that the experience is perhaps most valuable for intangible factors like team spirit that develop there. Probably more than any other Harvard sports team, the runners are a tight-knit group. The reason: McCurdy...
...more narrowly based and larger than most. One count shows 51 Georgians on the White House staff, 18 at the Office of Management and Budget and another 100 scattered throughout the Executive Branch. Observes a Carter campaign associate of the Georgians: "They are a breed unto themselves, close-knit, playing all their cards close to the vest." At week's end, the closest card of all was still being played by Jimmy Carter, who had made no known move to resolve his most pressing personnel-and personal-problem: what to do about Friend Bert...
...specialist in psychosomatic medicine at the University of Maryland Medical School, Lynch argues that social isolation brings emotional and then physical deterioration. Boston Irishmen, he notes, have a far higher coronary death rate than their brothers left behind in the more closely knit culture of the old sod. Nevada, a freewheeling singles-oriented state, has a higher rate of death from heart disease than neighboring Utah, with its Mormon tradition of close family ties. One study showed that in Roseto, an Italian American community in Pennsylvania, there were only one-third as many heart attacks as in culturally diversified surrounding...