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Keep Yourself Safe. This is the watchword for all ironworkers. Cherry has seen friends fall off beams from dozens of floors up: all through the book there are quick noises and men vanishing instantly into the wind and silence below. They pay the widow and children a full day's pay, and another connector takes the dead man's place. There's another risk: unemployment. Ironworking is dependent upon the amount of building going on, and many ironworkers are lucky to work most of the year. When a job is finished, they look for more work, wait in line. When...
...Bankhead Courts," wryly observed Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson. Bankhead is a $10 million public housing project where 2,646 low-income black people live. Though the project was completed only four years ago, it started falling apart almost immediately; Jackson spent a weekend there as the guest of a widow and her seven children as a way of drawing attention to the wretched living conditions...
...sugar 132%, bread 27% and milk 20%. The aged on fixed incomes are often devastated. "I walk into the supermarket, pick up a few oranges and lemons-and then count my money to see if I have enough," says Leah Binder, a 72-year-old Los Angeles widow...
...doors off hinges, cracked walls or damaged roofs; some have been totally destroyed. Two months ago, a villager named Elias Gibran was caught in the fields during an air raid and killed. He was Rashaya Fukhar's third fatality in such attacks; 25 others have been wounded. A widow and seven children survive...
Strange Bedfellows. In large part, the wave of violence is a consequence of President Juan Perón's death on July 1. When his widow Isabel succeeded him as President, her most pressing task was to maintain some semblance of unity among the diverse political factions that had supported her husband. Peronism had always been more of a personality cult than a cohesive political ideology. With El Lider gone, the danger was that his followers, who ranged from conservative businessmen to radical students and unionists, would realize what impossibly strange bedfellows they made. The inevitable splintering...