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...have to feel most sorry, ruthless or not, for the handsome black man, perhaps in street clothes, perhaps in a number 14, sitting on a bench with his arm curving into an ugly hunk of plaster, watching while the Red Sox bask in the incredible, exhilarating core of an ocean of energy, the high of a pennant race and maybe more...
Reluctantly or not, Shanker really established his firm grip on the union in 1968, when the city started an experiment in school decentralization in the largely black Ocean Hill-Brownsville area of Brooklyn. Black militants in control of the schools dismissed 13 teachers who were active in the U.F.T. In response, Shanker called a teachers' strike that lasted for 35 days and led to a nasty period of public hostility between New York's black community and the heavily Jewish teachers' union. The U.F.T. eventually won reinstatement of the teachers, but Shanker spent 15 days in jail...
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union must content itself with an enlarged navy cruising the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea and with a dramatically enlarged presence in Southeast Asian countries. In the Laotian capital of Vientiane, the tiny office of Aeroflot, the Soviet airline, lists 150 Russians as employees. There are intelligence reports that the Soviets have brought 40 patrol boats to cruise the Mekong River border between Thailand and Laos. China, for its part, maintains close contact with the Communist movements in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, and would support any guerrilla insurrections in these nations...
Everyone dreams of building a home away from home. A place your family can enjoy during their vacation. It can be at the lake, the ocean or in a forest. But if your vacation home is in or near a forest you have to be extra careful with fire. Or your dream home could go up in smoke. So here are just a few simple rules to remember...
...took. I had no place to go. I stuck out my thumb on a freeway entrance, going through all my tears to Venice, where I remembered beatniks lived. Afraid, with all my books, my dictionary, my eye makeup clutched to me, I sat on a bench staring at the ocean...