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Much had happened in the interval. The Viet Nam War had ended for Americans. A comrade-in-arms, described by Alpert's attorney as her lover, had been killed in 1971 as lawmen stormed New York's Attica state prison to quell a convict uprising. Over the years Alpert, a Swarthmore graduate and ardent feminist, concluded that the radical movement was male dominated and sexist. She also tired of life as a fugitive. "I did not want to spend my life hiding out," she told Federal District Judge Milton Pollack. Accompanied by her parents (her father...
...Parents. In dozens of meetings in the living rooms of white parents, Mayor Kevin White urged peaceful compliance with the order. "It's a lousy, rotten law," he said. "We fought the thing. We lost. Now we have to go along with it." But White was unable to quell the outrage of white parents in South Boston. Isolated from the rest of the city by canals, railroads and express ways, Southie is a tightly knit, working-class Irish community that has produced many of the city's leading politicians. Among them: former House Speaker John W. McCormack...
...Californians are lightweights and are only concerned with flaunting their tanned bodies," or "If California can produce a Nixon, it's got to be a sick place." At first I would fight back and defend myself from further attack. But I soon realized that a defensive strategy would never quell the ignorance of such stereotyped ideas...
...gauge of national economic efficiency. When labor, materials and machines are managed effectively and productivity rises, more goods and services are turned out. Managers can raise wages without adding to production costs or boosting prices. Indeed, a sustained rise in productivity is essential if the U.S. is ever to quell inflation while expanding its economy fast enough to meet its needs for more job opportunities and improved housing, education and medical services...
While the dramatic ending of repression continued to generate an air of political euphoria, Portugal's economic problems looked more serious than ever. The coalition government's vague promises of price stabilization and better working conditions did little to quell the increasing restlessness of Portugal's workers, who are the poorest paid in Western Europe and have to cope with an annual 30% inflation...