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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...higher rates, Lo-Vaca terminated its contract and filed suit for payment. During the 30 months that the case was being decided, the town continued to get gas without paying for it. Last June the court ordered it to pay up. Insisted Lo-Vaca Attorney Joseph Jaworski (son of Leon, of Watergate and now Koreagate fame): "It's time to stop this legal circus. Other customers of Lo-Vaca want to know why they should have to pay full price for gas and Crystal City doesn...
...across the continent of North America in January, 1889. His parents, penniless immigrants, were traveling to San Francisco, where the Atchison Railroad had promised his father a decent wage and a decent living. But while the railroad's promise proved hollow, the lie did not deter the father's son. Dan Lavette was too tough. By the time America's economic bubble burst in 1929, Lavette had dreamed, bluffed and borrowed his way to the top of a sprawling financial empire. He commanded ocean liners and airlines. He had married one of the most beautiful women in San Francisco...
...Fast's book ends differently. In The Immigrants Lavette is not ultimately consumed by the system through which he rises. For Lavette business is a game that attracts him as poker seduces a compulsive gambler, but Lavette never forgets that he is just the unmannered, uneducated son of an immigrant fisherman. The Depression is therefore a kind of blessing for Lavette, because it stops the game. Instead of jumping out of the window of his office to splatter on the streets of San Francisco when stock prices begin to plummet, Lavette, after a stint as a bum, leaves his business...
...black applicant who pulled himself out of the ghetto into a junior college can thereby demonstrate a level of motivation, perseverence and ability that would lead a fairminded admissions committee to conclude that he shows more promise for law study than the son of a rich alumnus who achieved better grades at Harvard. That applicant would not be offered admission because he is black but because as an individual he has shown he has the potential while the Harvard man may have taken less advantage of the vastly superior opportunities offered him...There is currently no test available...
That seems to be the idea behind Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," now at the Lyric Stage in Boston. The Hubbards are a juicy enough bunch: the miserly patriarch with a shadowy past; his wife, a religious fanatic; one son who schemes ruthlessly; another who whines and steals; and a daughter who compares unfavorably with Scarlett O'Hara. While Alabama in 1880 isn't a Danish castle, at least it provides a set of usefully poor neighbors and the Ku Klux Klan...