Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of what the seaboards have gained, the vast land area in between has lost−in population and power, in industry, and even in intellect. Michigan, long the symbol of American industrial go-getiveness, last year got only 2.7% of the defense prime contracts (against 9.5% in 1951-53)-Illinois got 2%. The seaboard centers have been a magnet in a selective sense−the populations flocking to California are not merely the sun-seeking oldsters, and certainly not the Okies of the 1930s, but often the youngest and brightest, most proficient and promising, most ambitious and adventurous...
Political parties: 2. Voters: 70%. Until recent reforms, political scene was dominated by seaboard's sophisticated Creoles, mostly descendants of freed U.S. slaves and deported English prostitutes. Conservative Prime Minister Sir Milton Margai's People's Party is first to represent aborigines as well...
...employer, Dr. George Gallup, director of Princeton's American Institute of Public Opinion, deployed a journalistic crew of seven in accordance with Gallup's advice. All told, Réalités' writers asked 25,000 questions in more than 3,000 interviews. On the Eastern seaboard, Reporter Pierre Marchant spent two weeks talking to 60 U.S. educators, business executives, politicians and clergymen. He posed to them all the single leading, loaded question: "Is there anything about the U.S. that worries you?" With only this priming, some of Marchant's subjects talked for four hours. From...
...aged that range downward from expensive private adequacy to public squalor. Whether they are in converted Manhattan brownstones or onetime country estates, mental and physical deterioration usually comes fast amid the frayed checkerboards, the flickering television sets and the cold tea. In one such home on the Eastern seaboard, a former foreman said softly to a visitor last week: "I can't think of anything useful I can do any more, and I don't want to sit around doing nothing. So I just sleep for longer spells, hoping it will end." But one out of every...
...held its annual open house, a "once a year day" complete with fried, chicken, cold soda, popular music, and softball. But the factory needs every bit of Negro support it can muster. Along with Vita Vita Foods (who distribute Eastern shore pickles and herring up and down the Atlantic seaboard) it is the town's chief source of Negro employment: about 90 per cent of the colored people here work in one of the two plants. Just now there is a strong movement to unionize the Campbell's plant which offers, as its maximum wage for skilled laborers...