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Some day governments may be held accountable for rotten distributions of income and wealth, much as they are now held accountable for recessions and inflation. Increasing taxes on upper incomes now--in order that the rich might bear the brunt of the current economic problems--might help in some measure to speed the arrival of that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Gaudy Show | 10/1/1974 | See Source »

...what a rotten thing for the baby child, the adorable, cuddled, beloved, little black girl, hurtling through the dark tunnel under South Boston, briefly lighting up the lives of those who saw her, moving through time out of babyhood and into childhood and understanding. What kind of world was "white power" preparing...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Busing and The Press | 9/25/1974 | See Source »

Outraged 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Southie Fights On | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

Penn has a great offense but a rotten defense. If the defense should come through the Quakers will win the title. But if the defense is as porous as last year, no matter how many points Vaughan, Bellizeare and company put up on the board, the Quakers will have to settle for another back-seat finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As Usual, The Big Green Is the Ivy Team to Beat | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...women's auxiliary of the F & G C, which insists that American women are "oppressed, indeed enslaved," Wallenberg brings on his secondary weapon, the opinion polls. From the findings of Gallup, Harris and others, he concludes that "American women don't believe they are living in a rotten, corrupt sexist society that has crushed them. They are, in fact, more satisfied than men." Similarly, polls show that the majority of Americans are middle class "because they think they are middle class, and they think they are middle class because they fit the criteria that they themselves have established...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: These Folk Can Cope | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

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