Word: braddock
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Died. Bessie Braddock, 71, retired Laborite member of Britain's House of Commons, where she was known as the "heavyweight champion" for her rough tongue and 200-lb. frame; of a heart attack; in Liverpool. Elected from Liverpool in 1945 and ever after until she stepped down last June, Battling Bessie was much maligned for her antics in Parliament (reputedly including dancing a jig in the aisle, snoring during debates), but earned the love and respect of her constituents for her unyielding fight to improve working-class life...
Often the sons have no choice but to follow their fathers into the hated plant. William West, a crane operator in a coil plant at Braddock, Pa., for example, brings home $100 a week, and he sees no way that he can finance a college education for his eight-year-old son. West asks: "What kind of a future does my kid have when you can't even get a job with a high school education?" In some blue collar neighborhoods, the high school dropout rate reaches 30%?the continuation of a cycle that locks the sons into...