Word: patches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from $6 to $6.44 an hour, first-class machinists who got $3.50 last summer are getting $5.65 an hour, while stenographers have jumped from $400 to $705 a month. Lynda Armstrong, 31, abandoned her ambition to be a nightclub singer to earn $1,000 a month as an oil-patch roustabout. "I'm no women's libber," she says. "I just want to do it if I can and let them...
...last year. Even those with money are often forced to leave for lack of a home, and Odessa churches and citizens have bought dozens of bus tickets for the destitute. Housing is somewhat more plentiful in Midland but is far too expensive -and distant-for the average oil-patch laborer. "Midland is a good place to raise children," goes the local saying, "Odessa is a good place to raise hell...
...well-service firm in Odessa, Texas. "But I'm happy to pay any price to get the equipment I need." Sometimes, the equipment is not only high-priced but hot as well. Says Sheriff Elwood Hill of Odessa: "They are stealing just about everything in the oil patch that isn't tied down." Hill adds that an experienced team of oilfield thieves can dismantle and cart off $20,000 worth of gear within two hours...
...dying. Thirty years ago, in February, 1944, Antigone appeared in Paris at the time of the German Occupation. Under the threat of air raid and without electricity, French audiences packed the Ate lier Theater night after night to see Anouilh's wife, Monelle Valentin, play Antigone in the small patch of light which crept through the stage's skylight. For in her struggle they saw reflected their own. Whereas Creon represented the Vichy government, Antigone was for them the spirit of freedom...
...Kramer's experience with HUD, which Norwood documents, demonstrates the insensitivity of federal aid to cities. But revenue sharing, which put money in the hands of the people who have already failed to manage the city, is not the answer either. We leave Paterson in confusion, clinging, like Sam Patch, to a belief in the spirit of a city that has persevered...