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...comic acuity to tell him precisely how much gutter imagery his audience can take. As box office returns show, more and more moviegoers are taking him in huge, healthy doses. Pryor has always been big with the hip and in Harlem. Now he knows his comedy can play in Peoria...
...Peoria, Ill., the Caterpillar Tractor Co. will lay off 1,700 workers this week, and those who are about to join the jobless are still disbelieving. "It's like being wounded in battle," says Jim O'Connor, president of United Auto Workers Local 794. "The initial shock is buried. Until a couple of months ago, people were walking around here with Reagan buttons on. Now I'm asking them if they liked inflation and a job better than no job. And they're saying, 'I'd rather have a job and raise hell about...
Many, perhaps most, of the discouraged turn to welfare. It is a necessity for Bernie Bell, 35, of Peoria, Ill., who has not found work since he was laid off from a Caterpillar Tractor plant in July 1980. He was making $10.57 an hour as a janitor. Last October, about the time his unemployment benefits ran out, Bell started accepting welfare. He also decided to stop looking for jobs until the economy around Peoria improves. Said he: "I've been all over this area and there ain't nothing out there." The decision to accept his unemployment...
...right-wing social activism of Jesse Helms and his supporters may play in Peoria, but last week it bombed in New Haven. In a letter to 1,267 incoming freshmen, Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti, 43, denounced a "self-proclaimed Moral Majority" and the New Right generally as "peddlers of coercion" and enemies of the spirit of free inquiry. Wrote Giamatti: "Angry at change, rigid in the application of chauvinistic slogans, absolutistic in morality, they threaten through political pressure or public denunciation whoever dares to disagree." Something of a conservative himself - he favors rigorous, traditional instruction and has often...
...bound to mean rising transit fares, reduced services and greater demand for local and state subsidies. Such cutbacks will hurt small cities more than large ones. New York derives less than 10% of its operating expenses from federal subsidies, but Corpus Christi gets 69%, Grand Rapids 44% and Peoria 35%. Lewis contends that rehabilitating existing systems will be a top priority. Says he: "We're trying to emphasize large cities, older cities over new systems...