Word: mille
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Olde Grist Mill was preceeded by another restaurant, Hungry Charlie's, which closed its doors...
Newcombe said his restaurant, at the site of the old Ye Olde Grist Mill, will differ from Country Kitchen in the quality of its food--"the difference between a Cadillac and a Ford...
Union Organizer Milford Allen stood for hours under a broiling sun one day early this month, handing "You Need a Union Card" leaflets to workers at the Barnesville, Ga., knitting mill of the William Carter Co., a Massachusetts-based manufacturer of children's clothing. "This union stuff is shit," snarled one worker as he threw his leaflet away. Said another: "I'd like it, but I can't take it. They'd lay me off." That night, at an organizing meeting that drew all of 24 union sympathizers (20 of them black), Allen in effect agreed...
...unionism than those in the industrial centers of the North. Racial tensions also play a role. As in Barnesville, black workers are often especially eager to sign union cards-and that puts off the whites. Then, too, many Southern workers, especially in Piedmont towns where the local textile mill is almost the only source of employment, are so happy to have industrial jobs that they do not care about the fact that those jobs pay less than similar ones in the North. (Southern nonunion textile pay averages little more than the $2.30-an-hour federal minimum wage...
...SITCOM has two new entries from Norman Lear and one from Mary Tyler Moore's mill. As might be expected, the most sophisticated, All's Fair, is a Lear production for CBS. The story about a conservative Washington columnist in his late 40s, played by Richard Crenna, and his affair with a young, radical chic photographer, gives saucer-eyed Bernadette Peters a long-overdue opportunity to close in on an identifiable personality. But All's Fair is not for all viewers. In the damning words of one West Coast handicapper: "It's a thinking...