Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hershey a few hours before, were a very different group from the people who had turned out to see Wallace shortly before in New York and Trenton. Those people were predominantly blue-collar workers and their children. But in Harrisburg Wallace's supporters were of the older right-wing breed--used-car salesmen, small businessmen and farmers who used to be Republicans, not Democrats...
...affect the same concerns--one farmer from near Harrisburg told me that he was afraid that rioters were going to come and burn down his barn--they have little else in common, and the Wallace movement is related to them in different ways. It depends on the middle-class right-wingers for money, and on the blue-collar workers for the mass support which has transformed Wallace from a regional to a national figure...
JUST about everything Dow needs, it has access to on the plant. Midland's main water route, which is called a river but looks like a sewer, flows right through the area and Dow extracts 300,000,000 gallons of water a day from it. The company also puts back the same amount of used water each day, after running it through a $10 million waste cleaning plant. Dow provides the power for all its machines, in three Midland power plants which generate enough electricity to supply a city of over half a million people...
...just about everything Dow's people need, Dow provides for them--right there. Dow has its own 131-man police force, its own 20-bed hospital, two fire stations, and a mammoth cafeteria for its 12,000 employees. It seems, in fact, that a person can spend his whole life fenced within Dow's plant, at no great physical inconvenience--if he can learn to tolerate the smoke...
WHAT WAS most irritating about their collective stance was the unstated premise that anything you do is all right, provided you are willing to talk about it. And the talk was not worth much, because instead of hedging they simply stated their principle that business's business is business and that it must generally go along with governments, U.S. or foreign as the case may be, on social questions. This leads to an immediate impasse. It is as if you are playing chess and your opponent moves his king so as to place himself in check. You explain...