Word: port
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York is a cavernous, dark, dirty beehive of vehicles, scurrying travellers, hustlers, religious people pushing books and leaflets containing the word of many gods, stores, waiting rooms--and, on the Monday night after spring term finals ended last year, me. I was heading out on the 11 p.m. Greyhound for Los Angeles, pack and sleeping bag on my back and cap on my head. I was looking for America...
Finally, I could take no more and decided to get off in Albuquerque, N.M. The bus rolled in just before midnight, two days out of Port Authority, and although the local buses had stopped running, I figured I could walk out of town and camp out. Wrong. It is about seven miles, uphill, from the bus depot to the western edge of town, a high flat plateau, or ten miles east to the base of the Sandias mountain range...
...conversation in non-confessional fashion. Father Bernard McLaughlin, pastor of the Catholic chapel at Logan Airport, smiled and instantly became a helpful fellow. Most of the people at the rally, he confided, were airport people, friends of King from the days when he was director of the Massachusetts Port Authority and a familiar face at Logan. It was a good night for all of them, he concluded, showing a good deal more assurance in the outcome, and a lot less amazement at its denouement, than most of the people there. "It's the middle-class issues, you know--tax reform...
...despite King's rhetorical affinity for workingclass people, his opponents believe any man who was director of the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) for 16 years cannot be much of a workingclass hero...
Even so, since old prejudices die hard, progress is often slow and uneven. Despite its commendable record in other fields, Ford has not yet overcome apartheid in the canteen at its plant in Neave, near Port Elizabeth. Though all workers are served at the same cafeteria, the whites eat on one side of a partition and nonwhites on the other side. Few other companies follow Ford's example and encourage nonwhites to participate in negotiations about wages and work rules...