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...INCOME STAGNANT. This classification includes Cambridge, Mass., McKeesport, Pa., Joliet, Ill., and Bell Gardens, Calif. Of the four types, it has the highest proportion of nonskilled and service workers-janitors, firemen, waiters, longshoremen, common laborers and the like-and the lowest proportion of commuters to the central city (34%). Here, on the average, 12% are black-although in some cases, as in East Orange, N.J., and Compton, Calif., blacks have become a majority. Residents register Democratic overwhelmingly, 63% to 28%, and generally vote that way as well. But even here, Nixon squeaked out a 1 % margin three years ago. Understandably...
...nine more LASH ships are under construction in the U.S. The vessels are designed to operate with a 31-man crew, but maritime unions forced Prudential to hire 38. Fearful of losing jobs because the barges can be unloaded in mid-harbor and towed to distant river points, longshoremen wrested a promise from shipowners to load only at dockside in the U.S. Despite such make-work arrangements, shipping men expect the LASH vessels to open a new era in ocean cargo transportation. If so, the Lash Italia could be the most important new American ship since the first Yankee clipper...
...Steel Corp., it would be built on public land out into the bay as part of a twelve-acre, $140 million project including a hotel and passenger-ship terminal. The tower did not lack enthusiastic backers. Construction workers saw it in terms of new jobs. To longshoremen and San Francisco Port Commission President Cyril Magnin, it would help to revitalize the now declining port. Mayor Joseph Alioto favored the building because it would also swell municipal tax rolls. Yet last week the city's board of supervisors voted the tower down, and Mayor Alioto is unlikely...
Both instances-in Spain and the Soviet Union-involved totalitarian regimes that have professed stony insensitivity to world opinion in the past. But they could hardly ignore the startling collection of political bedfellows and adversaries that formed against them last week. Longshoremen in Marseille and Genoa refused to handle either Spanish or Soviet cargo ships. Italy's Communist Party blasted the Soviets for sullying the image of socialism. Italian right-wingers, meanwhile, accused Madrid of doing the same to conservatism. In Lisbon, the Spanish ambassador got a dressing down from a delegation of 40 Portuguese journalists -none of whom...
...group underwent another sartorial change, this time as longshoremen. The slouch-cap and high-necked-sweater camouflage was given away by their standard weaponry-pickaxes and sledgehammers. However, the unit evolved into what one member called "probably the first community-relations bureau in the country." The policemen learned some Chinese and provided a link between the Chinese population and the bureaucracy of a bewildering Western society...