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...discrimination in New York, where Negroes represent 18.2% of the population but only hold 6.3% of white-collar jobs and are a meager 1.8% of the "managerial class." Even those in managerial jobs in most areas are usually lower-level executives. "If I let big business here poke me in the eye once for every Negro vice president it has," says a Los Angeles civil rights worker, "I'd never have to blink...
...fair. We do see some very tasteful advertising as well as the other kind. Consider the Volkswagen campaign as an example. No cheesecake. The vehicle is sold on its merits. Frequently the ads actually poke fun at the product. But sales are still climbing...
...They do nothing else unless, as often happens, a Viet Cong among the villagers foolishly tries to escape the net. Next, in flutters a giant Chinook helicopter carrying a contingent of Vietnamese National Police armed with burp guns and long metal rods. The policemen question and search the villagers, poke the ground with their rods in search of holes hiding Viet Cong or arms. They usually flush out both, and load them into the Chinook. With that, the police and the Cavalrymen withdraw. Usually within two hours the village is alone and tranquil again-minus its Viet Cong...
British Novelist Gwyn Griffin here uses a straightforward, fast-paced plot chiefly as a scaffolding from which he can poke and probe into some of the profound moral problems raised...
Most people know that they can get a severe electric shock if they recklessly poke into the back of an operating TV set, where high-voltage components are placed out of harm's way. But until recently, few were aware that the same high voltages may pose a more subtle threat: they can produce X rays that, if improperly shielded, endanger viewers sitting unusually close...