Word: milles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children of Haverhill, Mass. (pop. 45,000), are victims of neither poverty nor permissiveness. They are mostly sons and daughters of upright workers in the shoe factories of a New England mill town 40 miles north of Boston. Yet in the past month two anonymous notes from a "people's revolutionary tribunal" have been sent to the local school committee, threatening "death by bombing." Three high school boys, aged 15 and 16, have been arrested and charged with the manufacture and possession of "infernal machines" found in their basements...
...things in Mexico ran as smoothly as the Ciudad Juárez quickie divorce mill. The Juárez court severed 43,000 American marriages a year. Allowed to stand in much of the U.S., the divorces required the fleeting appearance of only one spouse, while the other merely agreed in writing. Juárez was so renowned that it attracted charter flights made up entirely of divorce seekers who flew in wed and flew out unwed all in less than...
Last week the mill ground to a halt, probably for good. The old easygoing law was quietly repealed, largely because of pressure from Mexico's federal government, which for years has been embarrassed at the image Juárez gave the country. Because it was Mexico, no one was entirely sure of what the new divorce rules were, but Eugenio Calzada, a highly respected Juárez lawyer, said flatly: "Divorces for Americans are finished." From now on, Americans will apparently have no place to which they can travel alone, shed a mate in one day and be reasonably...
...When the company hired local lawyers to present its case, they turned out to be some of the very men who had drafted the environmental laws in the first place. Now the state board has revoked most of the restrictions, and Spruce Tissue will start building its mill next spring...
...lost the loyalty of the young and the idealistic, which it had held in the time when labor led the battle for reform. Today, instead of seeking to change and improve the system, the union leadership has become a part of it. Textile-union leaders, for example, accompany mill owners to Congress to plead for higher tariffs...