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...more calm, though the problems which once aroused great passion have not disappeared. The issues discussed are the cross-town expressway and the extension of rapid transit. The police are under more attack than ever, but not for murder--only for scattered brutality and conscientious shake-down of tavern owners. Arlen returns to the house on West Monroe Street where the Panthers lived. A man is repainting the window trim. "Did something happen here?" Arlen asks. "Was it important?" An American verdict helps us to remember...
Despite their misgivings about Nixon, most Midwest citizens stop short of calling for impeachment. Many wish he would resign, but few hold out much hope for that. John Bauswein, 26, a registered Republican who runs a tavern in Cleveland, worries that impeachment would tarnish the country's image abroad: "I support the President only in that I don't want him impeached. I don't want the country further embarrassed." Some Midwesterners feel that impeachment would disfranchise them. Says Marjorie Bohac of Kimball, Neb.: "A vocal minority is trying to accomplish by impeachment and removal...
...publicity has generated a climate of fear that takes the form of black humor at the Silver Bay Tavern, where patrons order "bourbon and asbestos." Silver Bay residents know that there are few other good jobs for hundreds of miles around. They are thus fiercely loyal to the company and furious at the Government, the conservationists and the news media. "We don't think there's a health issue," says Mayor Frank Scheuring. "Nothing has been proved...
MILWAUKEE: The South Side of this large city (pop. 717,000) is the middle of Middle America, with a tavern on every corner. The families are mostly blue-collar, third-and fourth-generation descendants of Poles, Italians, Germans and Serbians; they gave George McGovern a slight majority. South Siders talk about many things: family problems, rising truancy in schools, soaring property taxes, baseball and-a poor fifth-Watergate...
...this is Tom Yellin," he yelled into the phone, "and I'm calling from the Hudson Terrace Tavern, and we just beat Penn and Columbia, which is pretty unreal...