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...hope from the fact that Minnesota's new Governor, Rudy Perpich, has designated the Reserve case as his top priority. "It is extremely important," he says, "that we not only stop the pollution of Lake Superior but see to it that the people dependent on Reserve for their livelihood continue to have jobs." More months may pass before the Reserve case-and Silver Bay's fate-are finally decided. Whatever happens, vows Ruth Ericson, wife of a Reserve lab analyst, "if we go down, we're going down in a blaze of glory. On July...
...Silent Majority," are frightened about our livelihood and our future; we are afraid to protest-to rock the boat. So we look to Jimmy who promises to give all of us what we're seeking, although we know he can't produce, or to Big Daddy Jerry who may have enough influence with big business to keep us working...
...only about a third of the Soweto work force had stayed home for all three days. Some employers considered docking the pay of absentees, but others urged their colleagues not to retaliate in any way. "A money-earning black is a happy black," counseled one executive. "Deprive him of livelihood, and you lose a potential ally when the crunch comes...
Peanuts today provide a livelihood to 60,000 farmers on 1.6 million acres scattered through such states as Texas. Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia -and above all, Georgia. The peanut plant is hardy enough not to require intense care, but it grows best in sandy soil. Georgia has that, and its farmers seem to have a natural flair for peanuts; anyway, the state produces almost 44% of the total U.S. crop...
Those who attack The Crimson for its principled stand on these issues, in the name of some abstract, foggy and even self-contradictory concept called "objective journalism," are as absurd and disgusting as that woman who said she would cooperate in an effort to undermine the livelihood, the daily bread, of people who have fed her at her convenience for the last four years, simply because she is a "liberal economist." The anti-Crimson mood, and its representatives like Peter Keyes '78, reminds me of Spiro Agnew's diatribes against the left-wing bias of the "Eastern Establishment" press...