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Absenteeism regularly affects about 5% of the work force, or 230,000 people, and consumption of alcoholic beverages has increased noticeably. One subtle indication of resentment is the array of vigil candles and fresh flowers regularly placed around the Prague grave of Jan Palach, the student who publicly immolated himself in 1969 to protest the Russian occupation...
Tiefer quit his job, sank his resources into a Manhattan storefront and hired a designer to help his wife. Before Melissa Tiefer, now two, was born, the Lady Madonna Boutique was ready for opening-day ceremonies-which included a buffet of pickles and ice cream and an array of statuesque, round-bellied mannequins...
Thousands of Southerners turn out each year to see the drama re-enacted, but the cadet corps of V.M.I, stages its own commemoration. Last week, in splendid array, the seven companies of cadets swept onto the V.M.I, parade ground in full regalia: black-plumed shakos, gray coatees, white crossbelts, white ducks. They stood near a statue of Stonewall Jackson, flanked by four cannons named Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. As each name of the ten honored dead was called out, a cadet from the young soldier's company answered: "Died on the field of honor...
...most of them have had their homes broken into-or know someone who has. Burglaries rank first among all U.S. crimes, and fewer than a third of them are ever solved. Fed up with being victimized, apprehensive homeowners and apartment dwellers are replacing the welcome mat with an arresting array of security devices and services. Unwanted visitors now run the risk of being temporarily blinded by intense lights, deafened by screaming alarms, stung by electric fences or sprayed with tear gas. For the fledgling industry that supplies this security, the wages of fear are handsome. Sales in the home-protection...
...able to establish institutions of superior education for its own. High schools like Washington's Dunbar and, to a lesser degree, Atlanta's Booker T. Washington, which King attended, and those in other Southern cities where the black middle class had the power to establish them, have produced an array of well-skilled, motivated blacks. Most blacks who attended the better colleges and graduate schools received their early education at these high schools, and the majority of these people either returned with their skills to the community or entered other forms of public service. However, to create an environment capable...