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...boundaries meander without obvious aim or purpose. Tiny houses, usually stucco and rarely worth more than $30,000, are jumbled together with tacky businesses along its dismal streets. Some 70,000 people call it home, but only a city father could love it. "This is a lower-middle-class workingman's community," says City Administrator Kenneth Bolts. Unnecessarily, he adds: "We will never be a Beverly Hills...
Since the release of their first album, the Dead have developed innovatively and very steadily; they've recorded four more studio albums- Anthem of the Sun, Aoxomoxoa, Workingman's Dead , and their most recent, American Beauty , and have brought out two "live" albums, Vintage Dead and Live Dead...
...Dead were reaching the limits of their power-several hours of nearly non-stop music at the end of a long tour can do that. They paused briefly after one piece, and started in quickly on "Uncle John's Band," a calm, beautifully harmonized song from Workingman's Dead. It was the best saved for last. and it meant the end of the concert was close at hand. The crowd appreciated the song noisily; when it was over, the audience clapped wildly, shouting for more, stomping, clapping in unison, but the Dead were tired, and there...
...Japanese workingman is a strike-proof model of corporate dedication, the Japanese worker's wife is a plant manager's dream. Not only is she conditioned by custom and culture to accept second place to the company in her husband's eyes, but she also dutifully fills her home with all those electrical gadgets that are so important to Japan's economy. Now the faint stirring of Japanese-style Women's Lib and consumerism threatens to change her buying habits...
...there have been no murders at all. Although a handful of blacks work in the town's busy factories, none dare to live in South Milwaukee. Residents are not particularly sympathetic to blacks. "We made it. We got what we wanted on our own." says a middle-aged workingman as he quaffs a beer. "Why can't they...