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Never having had a sister, mother or female friends in military school, he believes the older soldier's explaination of sex as "shoving your cock into a tin of worms." His responses to women are sexual and unemotional until he meets the brigadier's daughter. Then Scorton's emotional intensity seems somewhat inconsistent with his previous behavior. The stormy relationship with his wife, which takes on all the atmosphere and language of a battle, lacks the same color and strength of his dalliance with the two sisters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Struggle | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

...after we filed for an election, the maximum allowed under the 1975 California Agricultural Labor Relations Act. By then most of the work would be done, and since Sam Andrews was charging $8 per day for the rice and beans he offered them for dinner and the barracks-like tin sheds they lived in in the camps, the grower knew they wouldn't stay without work. However the saqueros were so strong for the UFW that they wrote and signed a petition to the Agricultural Labor Relations Board to hold the elections a few days earlier. Facing about 170 signatures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Activism: UFW Summer '77 | 10/4/1977 | See Source »

...cars are tin, stereotype and bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trying to Say What Happened | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...rise at the high May annual rate-7.4%. The main factor: higher price tags on processed foods such as dairy items and canned goods. Further dimming prospects for price relief, U.S. Steel, the industry leader, unexpectedly announced last week that it would raise prices on structural shapes and tin mill products by 6% to 7% effective Sept. 4. In addition, the House last week followed the Senate's lead and approved a measure raising the wheat support price for farmers from $2.47 to $2.90 per bu. The move would add at least $470 million to the cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTLOOK: Slower, but No 'Pause' | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...evening fell on Thursday, the ghettos gradually returned to normal. On some streets there was almost a sense of camaraderie between the cops and the black and Hispanic youths. Some of the officers in Bedford-Stuyvesant swung their long riot sticks like golf clubs, sending tin cans and other debris flying out of the gutter. "Hey, man," called out a black youngster with a chuckle, "your grip is all wrong." In the South Bronx, a brightly lit Ferris wheel slowly revolved in the night sky, its two-passenger chairs filled. Sporting shiny new Adidas jogging shoes, a young teenage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BLACKOUT: NIGHT OF TERROR | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

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