Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bankers Trust: "By the end of this century, the U.S. may have the most modern manufacturing sector in the world, but it won't own it." Says Democratic Representative John Bryant of Texas: "America has been selling off its family jewels to pay for a night on the town, and we don't know enough about the proud new owners...
People around Neunkirchen, the Saarland coal-mining town where Erich Honecker was born 75 years ago, remember him as a serious-minded boy who passed out political newspapers after school at age ten and shunned religion class as a matter of working-class principle. "He didn't play with us in recess or go swimming in the summer," recalls Kurt Humbs, 76, a classmate in nearby Wiebelskirchen, where Honecker grew up. "Sometimes," he adds, "you had the impression you were looking into a mirror with no glass...
...level street, and maybe Gilbert would glide over from the next block with his longhorn handlebars and mud flaps. The caravan would pick up speed and conviviality as the wind opened eyes and mouths. Wayne, Eddie and Jimmy might fall in line just west of the town square, and by the time the boys were skirting the sagging remains of the tin livery stable they were no longer kids. They were the dawn patrol in Spads and Sopwith Pups, cruising in perfect formation, hats raised over their heads in exuberance and defiance of common sense, steering by the seats...
...dreamed that Jesse Jackson, candidate for President of the U.S., would, 50 years later, set up his Iowa headquarters on that forgotten corner. What strange force brought a man of world renown, a fire- breathing latter-day populist, to that dot of earth, that little corner of a small town that was never witness to anything more grand than a merry-go- round, a high school band concert and an ice-cream social...
Strange, wonderful system that somehow brushes the most humble. Does Jesse Jackson understand the deep farm problems, the complicated roots of small-town deprivation? His own background is so very distant. But he understands want and being left out. We will know before long whether that is enough to link the mighty White House to the tiny town of Greenfield in the history books yet to be written...