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...village. Then, in the late 19th century, Charles Brower set up a whaling station; he stayed on for 57 years and became known as "The King of the North." Today about 90% of the people in Barrow are Eskimos. They and the few whites in Barrow form a tightly knit community. There is not much money in the settlement's treasury. But when a new emergency fire vehicle was needed, the residents chipped in to help the town buy a $30,000 fully tracked fire truck that can go anywhere in any weather...
Another problem is unemployment, which stands at more than 50%. The population has doubled since the end of World War II, but jobs have not kept pace. Some people have moved away, but the close-knit community life in Barrow ties its residents to the city. The Prudhoe Bay oil strike, 200 miles to the east, has so far meant only about two dozen jobs in Barrow. The Government remains the biggest local employer; there is a branch of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for example, and a Naval Arctic Research Lab just outside town...
Making that telegram convincing will be Nixon's most difficult task. The Group of Ten monetary experts who will be meeting in Washington this week for yet another try at resolving the four month-old economic crisis can testify that the West is not as closely knit as it might...
Some of Nancy's styles do not undergo annual changes. "When I find a good basic idea," she says, "we stick with it, just changing the sleeves, collars and accents." One popular outfit is her polyester knit Nancy Pants, and an other style is the Tom Jones blouse, which has a full sleeve with a wide, snug cuff. She makes gold lame pantsuits, gaucho pants, knickers and patio dresses, and refuses to rule out any particular style for her customers-except for "anything tight" and numbers with buttons all the way down the front (they may gap and pull...
...authors, Pepper Schwartz and Janet Lever, were graduate students in sociology when the coeducational transformation began. Both knew Yale before 1969's Coed Week and had experienced Yale--"lush, expensive, and cloistered"--as an eminently male institution. The introduction of women into a tightly-knit society of male privilege presented a unique opportunity for a sociological study and the two women began accumulating data. Not content with simply interviewing the 96 undergraduates in their survey, Schwartz and Lever underwent mixers, beer guzzling, weekend trips, and pick-up attempts with their Yale subjects. Indeed, the data accumulated so rapidly that Schwartz...