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...wail of police sirens seldom subsides at the Academy Homes. Alpha Security guards constantly patrol the buildings, and the walls of the MBTA's orange line--which slices through the project--are almost completely obscured by graffiti. Poor, extended and usually fatherless families occupy the two massive structures which rise out of the haze and debris of Roxbury. Most of the adults are alcoholics or drug addicts. The children--who comprise more than 60 per cent of the residents--run in gangs, calling themselves the Warlocks, the Crazy Homicides or the Wild Bunch. The environment is not conducive...
...Seldom has a war over such relatively simple issues for those waging it had so many dangerous, unpredictable and complex ramifications. A large match was lit last week in a very flammable part of the globe. The uncontrolled fires that now darken the skies over the refineries of Basra and Abadan are apt symbols for the gulf...
Peace and understanding were supposed to follow once the world was wired together into one global village. Knowledge would ricochet off satellites out in space, bringing us instant views of coronations, street riots or Olympic Games. What the world saw together it would feel together. But that seldom happens...
...with sharp eyes and a sharper wit carefully sheathed by a down-home demeanor. His face is seamed and sunbaked from a lifetime on practice-field towers and stadium sidelines. His voice, a rich Southern drawl, is rarely raised; there is seldom any need...
Detroit's current troubles, therefore, have sent tremors through other vital sectors of the U.S. economy. Akron rubber workers, faced with layoffs like those in the auto industry, are accepting extraordinary reductions in their wage contracts, a development seldom known since the Depression. Even 200 Montana miners have lost their jobs because the low-sulfur coal they were digging is no longer needed to power Detroit's auto plants. Textile workers in North Carolina are out of work because demand has ebbed for the carpeting that they make for car interiors. In all, declining auto sales have cost...