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Teamster officials deny that the union is behind the battle of the buckshot. "We don't condone any violence," says Robert Cook, president of Atlanta's Teamster Local 728. "A scab is one of the lowest-down humans there can be, but I'm against anybody shooting at anybody." Still, eight striking Bowman Teamsters have been arrested since November. And last week Sam Webb, president of northern Alabama's Local 612, was indicted for assault with intent to kill in the Warren shooting...
This bum, memorably played by Donald Pleasence, is the smelliest, itchiest, un-deloused scamp ever plucked from the rim of a rubbish barrel. Every time he opens his mouth, he picks at the scab of past wrongs and present hates. A wily slum serf, the tramp raises a mock one-finger salute to his masters, and plays the brothers off against each other. They, in turn, offer him the nebulous post of care taker, and finally, in mutual revulsion, cast him out to an unknown fate...
...situation? What are the implications of the necessarily unsubtle techniques now used? One can feel great sympathy, for example, with the pacifist who pickets missle bases until he realizes that this sort of action bears no direct relation to the situation (a technician here is by no means a scab if he crosses the picket line) and that the symbolism behind this movement, if carried to its extreme, augurs extreme danger for the United States. To protest the manufacture of missiles is to harbor a hopelessly unrealistic vision of the present day world...
...redeeming his unsavory hero; it does not quite come off, compared to the snarling realism and cool, street-corner observation that shapes the rest of this story of Ike-o's growing up. The raucous garbage heap of Sobaski's Stairway has been scraped off like a scab by the welfare state, but in this novel its aroma of gamy decay still hangs heavy on the Pittsburgh...
...week's end (he is appealing to the State Tenure Commission), Worley was not sorry for his stand. "Controls by administrators," said he, "are a scab on a festering sore that hinders imaginative teaching." Twelve parents promptly hired him to tutor their children. Scholar Jacques Barzun, provost of Columbia University, wrote a warm personal note: "In a period when the rarity of good teaching is notorious and likely to increase, it is a rash administrator who would dismiss a competent and reliable teacher solely on the ground of not following to the letter a secondary obligation in the form...