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...views of Rita Majette, 22, a black union member who complained: "I have kids in seventh-grade, reading on a fourth-grade level, but how can it be my fault? I've only been teaching for one year." The attitude of some unionists had become far meaner. "They want to tell us what to do," complained Teacher Frank Marzerella. "Do I have to be judged by people with a third-grade education?" Replied the Rev. Henry Cade, a black minister: "No racist union will take away our education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Savage Strike in Newark | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

Many of them are waiting out the slump, baffled and frus trated, while others try their hands at lesser skills and ad just their lives to meaner incomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Victims of a Good, Glamorous Cause | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

...JOHN is meaner than an alligator with abscessed teeth, but he's also a hell of an interesting animal to watch." With these words, a former associate of Secretary of the Treasury-designate John Connally previewed the spectacle awaiting Potomac watchers who may seek to unravel the dynamics of President Nixon's newest Cabinet member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: New Texan on the Potomac | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

...paper's content got livelier, it also got meaner and more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out on a Limb with the Midi | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

Breslin will turn out a monthly piece for New York, the magazine he helped start after the World Journal Tribune folded. But mostly he will write fiction, which some of his meaner critics claim he's been doing all along anyway. It's touch and go whether the world of letters will shine brighter because Breslin is there, but it's a certainty that newspapers will seem greyer without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnists: Joining a Bigger League | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

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