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...park scheme dates back to 1968, when Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered a land-use study of the area. The study established that state-owned parcels were scattered in a crazy-quilt pattern among thousands of individual private property holdings. It turned out that about 80 of the 89 towns in the region lacked zoning rules and thus had no defense against helter-skelter development...
...wage-and-benefit rates for every craft in every locality of the land. If one union demands an out-of-line increase, Dunlop and his fellow committeemen have strong grounds to talk it down. A goal of the committee is to bring order to construction's crazy-quilt negotiating patterns, in which union locals try to outdo each other in gaining ever richer contracts. In an industry that has 10,000 competing locals, Dunlop is striving to set up a union-management board that would settle labor disputes at a national level...
Cornelia sat across the cramped aisle from her shirtsleeved husband. Still unrecovered from the aftereffects of kidney medicines that triggered phlebitis, she propped up her shapely legs on the armrest of the seat in front, pulled a furry quilt round her, and sucked on a glass of ice water. As the craft neared Montgomery, she began to feel nauseated and asked a security guard to pass her a green plastic trash basket in case she needed it. "You feel all right, honey?" George asked. "Maybe this cigar is bothering you." He stubbed it out and lit one of her Virginia...
Andrea Burrell gets her grandmother to show how to make soap from lye and lard. U.G. McCoy tells how to skin and cook a coon. There are home remedies, snake lore, weather signs, quilt patterns and stitches, faith healing and mountain recipes: carrot pudding, a century-old recipe for gingerbread, even fried pumpkin and Spanish blossoms...
...culture and politics, this experience is shaped by a "network of connections" that reciprocally binds this experience to the larger society. Through the work of Professor Martin Kilson in Afro-American political development, we are beginning to understand, for example, that oppression of blacks assumed a crazy-quilt pattern in cities with sectors of the black population securing advantage and mobility because of status, class, and the presence or absence of the political machine...