Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most spectacular sign of the strategy was the rise of a former Shanghai cotton-mill worker, Wang Hung-wen, 38, from virtual obscurity to vice chairman of the party. He now ranks below only Mao and Chou in the hierarchy. Since Wang is associated with such radical faction leaders as Chiang Ching and Politburo Member Yao Wenyuan, his promotion indicated that the leftists could not simply be pushed aside as a political force...
...racially troubled Hyde Park High School, black and white students held separate meetings and elected ten representatives each to a committee charged with bringing peace to the classrooms and corridors. The committee then requested the aid of a biracial mediation team composed of Dalton Bough, a black youth worker, and William F. Lincoln of the National Center for Dispute Settlement...
...nonfiction opus, Every Night, Josephine!, Susann kept her theatrical instincts well honed; she and her husband for 29 years, TV Producer Irving Mansfield helped make sure that even if her well-merchandized works were scorned by critics, they would be read by a vast and curious public. A compulsive worker, Susann concocted her stories from a standard, easy-to-read recipe of soft-core deviant human appetites and lusts, glamorous settings like Broadway and Hollywood, and characters often resembling easily recognizable public figures. Dolls, with sales of 17 million copies, became probably the most purchased novel in history...
Barbara A. Mikulski, 38, an ebullient, stubby (4 ft. 11 in.) member of the Baltimore city council, easily defeated ten rivals to win the Democratic nomination for Senator. Like Gore, Mikulski is unmarried, but there the similarity ends. A former social worker, she lives near her old Polish neighborhood and is active as a community organizer for the city's ethnic groups. Mikulski will face incumbent Senator Charles Mathias, 52, in what could turn out to be a fascinating election-liberal Democrat v. liberal Republican, ethnic v. the establishment...
Like many black athletes, Foreman grew up poor. He was the son of a railroad worker in Houston's Fifth Ward, a ghetto that even today throbs with uneasily repressed violence. His parents separated when George was a boy, and he dropped out of school in the eighth grade, quickly becoming a terror on the streets. Drunk on rotgut wine, "Monkey" Foreman was a savage gang fighter. "When we started a fight, we'd look around to see if Monkey was there," recalls Don Thomas, a former gang member with Foreman. "You had two or three cats whipped...