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...supervisor refers him to a notice on the bulletin board. The jock and I go out to read the notice. It is from Master Heimert, apologizing for the inconvenience, asking crowdies not to vent their wrath on the House secretary, and saying. "We have been told that Mather House will be completed by December, and that [mysteriously] other provisions may be made for these men soon...
...Chile, and eventually the American Ambassador to Chile was moved to protest strongly to the State Department about what he felt to be the project's adverse effects on the U.S. position in the country. It was becoming apparent that if SORO itself was to be saved form the wrath of Defense Department officials who had doubted the value of social science research from the outset, then Camelot would have to be sacrificed, and in mid-1965, Secretary MacNamara announced the cancellation of the program. The episode concluded with a memorandum from President Johnson which gave the State Department...
Nowhere have the sounds of outrage been heard more frequently than in New York City, where giant Consolidated Edison Co. has blamed conservationist opposition to its expansion plans for its difficulties in meeting growing demands for electric power (see ENVIRONMENT). Last week consumer wrath fell in almost equal measure on the New York Telephone Co., second largest in the Bell System. At a hearing called by the State Public Service Commission to investigate complaints of poor service, witnesses railed about everything from Manhattan's grossly overloaded Plaza 8 exchange to pay telephones in which the only working parts seem...
Hayward, "Yer beoodiful in yer wrath...
...conditions under which farm laborers toil have improved somewhat since the squalid Depression era so well evoked by John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath and In Dubious Battle; yet field work remains one of the most unpleasant of human occupations. It demands long hours of back-breaking labor, often in choking dust amid insects and under a flaming sun. The harvesttime wage for grape pickers averages $1.65 an hour, plus a 250 bonus for each box picked, while the current federal minimum wage...