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When about 150 of the women started a 15-mile march from Seneca Falls to their camp near Romulus, 300 residents of the nearby village of Waterloo (pop. 598) blocked their path. One man brandished a shotgun and was arrested. The women sat quietly on the street; 52 were arrested for disorderly conduct. Many were detained for five days in a school before charges of disorderly conduct were dropped. When nearly 1,700 protesters approached the depot two days later, residents shouted, "Commies, go home!" and waved American flags. After local and state police permitted 244 of the women...
...support for the MX in Congress is still "eggshell thin." Cohen predicted that in coming weeks the House would appropriate $4.5 billion for building 100 of the controversial missiles. But unless the Reagan strategy for START produces some results by the fall, Cohen said, the MX could face a Waterloo...
...altogether reassuring. More than 500 U.S. companies are largely or wholly owned by employees. About 50 or 60 of them, like Weirton, were on the verge of being closed down when they were bought out. Among the largest in recent years have been Rath Packing Co. in Waterloo, Iowa, with sales of $435 million, and bearing maker Hyatt Clark Industries in New Jersey, which had sales of $66 million in its first ten months under employee ownership. Both companies lost money last year. But Corey Rosen, executive director of the National Center for Employee Ownership in Arlington, Va., says that...
...Grandstand, and the fetching Princess Di lookalike, Selina Scott, whose alluring television manner may heat up cold winter mornings. But the hit of the first show was the "Green Goddess," a supple Valkyrie named Diana Moran, clad in green leotards, who gently bullied bemused and bleary-eyed commuters at Waterloo Station into shaping up and stretching out on the spot...
...most despairing group of economists today may be the Keynesians, who enjoyed prominence as the leading school of thought during the 1960s and '70s. They met their Waterloo in the late '70s, when their pump-priming policies pushed up inflation. Says Allan Meltzer, a Carnegie-Mellon University professor and an influential monetarist: "If the Keynesian program had worked, Jimmy Carter would still be President." Although many Keynesians now want to trim the deficit, the recession has emboldened others to call for continued high deficit spending. Says Lester Thurow, a leading Keynesian who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute...