Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comment of Western Reserve University students that Case Institute of Technology engineers were "plumbers" was noted here by management and journeymen with less than enthusiasm. The local union scale is $5 hourly. The take-home of the plumber isn't something to be ridiculed, being $10,400 annually, less fringes. It is doubtful if the junior engineer's salary is that formidable. I guess that the mentioning of this segment of the construction industry in a dubious manner is something with which we'll have to live...
...resembles World War Two army housing. It is not an urban ghetto like Roxbury, but neither does it have the suburban appearance of Watts. There are few trees, but many open sewage ditches. The air is warm and heavy like a Southern town. Down at the Barrington Lounge, the local hotspot, you wouldn't be surprised to find Rod Steiger roughing up a few of the "nigras...
...blacks are generally passive. The local chapters of SCLC and CORE have little practical structure. There is no black power movement. Most of the local Negro leaders endorsed McCarthy, with little noticeable effect on their people. The Negroes of Barrington have been intimidated for years. They don't want to risk what they do have. Even McCarthy's proposed guaranteed annual income through a negative income tax was suspect. The people of Barrington work for what they get. They resent it--silently...
...knock a god, though we tried. We knew the people trusted us as much as they trusted any white man. We took part in their activities. One night we went to a fair in School 64--the Harriet Beecher Stowe School. Sunday morning, we went to one of the local Baptist churches. The neighbors would occasionally cook something for us--fried fish, perhaps, or a cake. The smaller kids adopted us and conducted guerrilla forays in the name of McCarthy. But they were our only converts...
...committee and to the ten-man Democratic town committee in Athol, Massachusetts. A more striking case, however, was the Democratic ward committee election that occurred in Cambridge last primary day, April 29. Four college students, one of them a Harvard senior, headed a 12-member slate that toppled the local cronies of State Representative Timothy Hickey. The Hickey group held control of Ward 9 for a dozen years...