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...TIMES CHANGE, and conditions get better, and what was once a brutal but necessary struggle is now a pleasant memory, a film history for the United Auto Workers to underwrite. Right--except that the mills in Lawrence are empty for a reason: everyone went down South, where there are no unions, only brown lung, bad money, and the "right to work." Sure--except the AFLCIO, the Teamsters and the rest have become more toadyish than ever, barely squawking when plants close down, doing nothing when presidents decide to put the lower class on welfare so the middle class...
...long hours in a cell were spent reading voraciously--everything "except articles on the Philippines, they were cut out." He devoured books by the CfIA personnel he has now met as well as Harold Robbins novels. "You can only read the heavy stuff for so long," he says. During that time Aquino came to the conclusion that "the only difference between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is America's moral anger--take away the moral anger, and you have two symmetrical superpowers." He says he feels no bitterness--he will respond to Marcos if the dictator is "sincere...
...Come Easy" accompanied the notorious "She's Not There" by Santana. Joe Doucette, Stanford alumni back for a guest appearance with the band, said that "sleeping on the floor of the B.C. hockey rink where the Band lodged during its stay in Boston-really wasn't that bad except for the noise. There was a large amount of snoring and thrusting and things." Joe's band instrument? The canon...
...visceral anti-Russian sentiments and his combative, provocative personality in public. During a trip to China in 1978, he challenged an aide to a race up the Great Wall, saying, "Last one to the top has to fight the Cubans in Ethiopia." It would have been a harmless joke, except that the Soviets as well as some State Department officials were already quivering with anxiety about the anti-Soviet overtones of the trip, and the reporters gathered round were sure to overhear the quip and make news out of it. They...
...Except for the actors, 85% of whom are "at liberty" in even the best of TV times, few will be hurt by the strike. The networks will not lose money, since advertisers "buy" seasons as well as individual shows, and the fall is a season of high viewership. Nor will the advertisers lose out; if the ratings plunge on reruns they will be compensated by next spring, when original programs are still running...