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...trip down the Yangtze from Chongqing to Wuhan. In Chongqing I visit an electronics plant that makes oscilloscopes and instruments for testing TV equipment. Dust-free and climate-controlled, the plant requires visitors to don clean slippers before entering. Inside are young women of 20 to 25 making circuit panels. They are only three or four years out of the paddy fields, but their product is superior...
...hours: peasant girls trained to make sophisticated oscilloscopes and circuit boards; forced labor cutting hard rock with mallet and chisel; then young women, treated as beasts; then the pride of Chinese technology...
...world. Sometimes that's all it took. But sometimes the visitor asked the question Haggerty didn't want to hear: where's the outdoor track? Haggerty usually just said. "It's in the Stadium." Rarely did he bother to show off the run-down four-lane cinder circuit...
...ECAC's season, as well as the inefficient scheduling of long road trips--a major problem for Cornell and Princeton. Mid-week, reading-period road trips to places like Maine and Colgate also caused inconveniences. Academic differences between the Ivies and some other ECAC schools further split the circuit. Brown Athletic Director John Parry explained. "We got concerned when some Eastern schools were practicing in mid-September and playing their first games in October," at least a month before the Ivy schools." And their answer always was, 'We need the money,''' Parry said, adding, "We would have to lower...
...office on La Salle Street and joined the knots of attorney "hustlers" who hang around many courtrooms drumming up business. One frequently offered service: asking clients for upfront money "to pay off the judge." The Feds evidently infiltrated judicial ranks with at least one visiting informer-judge: flamboyant downstate Circuit Judge Brocton Lockwood of Marion, who claims that he collected evidence of payoffs with a tape recorder stuffed into his cowboy boots. Lockwood found that the going rate to fix a drunken-driving charge...