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...Pennsylvania to suit his new identity. They came through. Republican national organizations contributed $57,000 to his race against unknown Democrat Joseph Kolter, 56, and the state legislature cut the district's 45,000 Democratic edge in half. But few foresaw the ravages of recession in this steel-mill area, where unemployment has hit 20.4% in Beaver County. Kolter, a state legislator and former teacher, has attracted labor support in a spirited campaign depicting Atkinson, 55, as an opportunist who should be held responsible for his embrace of Reaganomics. Says Atkinson: "I have no problems being identified with...
...Frank began to cut into her margin, especially in the Fall River mill area, where unemployment reached 15.5% this summer. His approach: link Heckler with the President's economic policies. A worried Heckler slashed back with fierce attacks on Frank's liberal record in the state legislature. The race is very close. A strong Democratic statewide slate, headed by U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, is expected to help Frank...
...solemn procession moved out of the gates of the giant steel mill at Nowa Huta, an industrial city less than ten miles from Cracow, and began to make its way across railroad tracks and cinder heaps to a hill overlooking the foundry. Many workers in the column carried their soot-smudged vermilion hard hats under their arms. Others held bunches of chrysanthemums or evergreen wreaths bedecked with ribbons bearing bold messages like IT is BETTER TO DIE STANDING UP THAN LIVE ON YOUR
...writing about Woody seemed like a glowing, as-yet-un-snatched opportunity, the flip side is that a talent so multifaceted and subtle as his cannot be helpfully reduced to a series of art-vs.-life and success-vs.-integrity conflicts, or even to a run-of-the-mill Freudian manifestation. Quoting the opening passage of Love and Death("...all men go eventually, but I go at six o'clock tomorrow morning. I was supposed to go at five o'clock, but I have a smart lawyer..."). Jacobs notes that the film "opens in the concept/reality collision spirit of Getting...
...single term. She says pointedly, "One must do more than simply vote and debate in Washington," noting that since 1977 she has helped bring $4.8 million in urban development grants to her district. Heckler insists that she is no uncritical devotee of Reaganomics. Yet in distressed old mill towns like Fall River, where unemployment is at 14% and, according to Frank, voters "have this terrible sense of unfairness," her independence of the Administration may not seem so clear...