Word: neighborhood
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Carvalho calls for a socialist state organized around factory, office and neighborhood councils, in contrast to the bureaucratic societies envisioned by both the PCP and the PSP. Loosely allied to Maoist, Trotskyist and anarchist parties, Carvalho has received only sporadic formal support among industrial and agricultural workers, who comprise perhaps 30 per cent of the country. But Carvalho is personally popular, supported by a widely based rank and file movement for workers' control similar to the one which precipitated last March's decree nationalizing banks and insurance companies by taking over those institutions...
Aong the back edge of the crowds, Belfast's teenieboppers, with stencils on their shirts reading "Bay City Rollers" (the local rock group that made it big) ran alongside their neighborhood bands. At the beginning of a new tune, the drums would sound a sharp call and the girls would throw up their fists three times, punching the air with a stacatto...
Even before the weekend disorders, there had been signs that Louisville's whites were not going to accept busing without resistance. At Fairdale High, in a suburban working-class neighborhood, 70% of the white pupils stayed home, although most of the 300 blacks assigned to the school made the long ride from the city. Many of the black students were nervous as they approached their new schools. As one busload of blacks from Shawnee Junior High School in Louisville drew up to Valley Station High in the suburbs, Leslie Lacy, 17, commented anxiously, "I think I'll paint...
...Peach has driven his year-old Ford, its seats still protectively covered in their original showroom plastic, through a working-class neighborhood of government-subsidized houses, down Owen Road and through
...character named Henke (Val Avery), who is being sought by various intelligence agencies so that he can be put on ice. Henke, a sour, anonymous-looking man lugging a brown paper bag of groceries and a fresh copy of Playboy, retrieves a rubber ball for a bunch of neighborhood kids. They ask him to give it back, and he looks, for a moment, uncertain. Then he throws the ball through the glass window of a nearby apartment, whose tenant rushes out and starts after the startled kids. Henke laughs all the way home...