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...Mel Peoples, chief shop steward for the Harvard dining halls and one of the members of the negotiating committee, asked the shop stewards of each dining hall to consult with the kitchen workers to draw up a list of terms they wanted included in a new contract...
ANSWERS: 1) George Lalich 2) 9, Murray Dea 3) Endicott "Chub" Peabody 4) adjuster George Newhouse in 1976 5) Jim Fitzsimmons with a 24.2 scoring average in 1971-72 6) "Pineapple" 7) Denise Thal, Lissa Muscatine 8) Mike Faught 9) Jon Garrity 10) Shep Messing 11) Mel Embree 12) Jim Stoeckel 13) Baltimore Orioles star lefthander Mike Flanagan 14) Andy O'Hara 15) 26 yards 16) Lyman Bullard 17) Alex Vik 18) 10 19) Dick Button, John Misha Petkevich 20) Larry Glueck
...sheets. This is 1978." Walter Christian, a local insurance man, grumbles, "Why did they pick Saturday, anyway? Saturday is our busiest shopping day." Most people have a deeper fear. They are pretty sure there will be a shooting. "Life is cheaper down here than in the North," says Mel Blatt, who migrated to Mississippi from New York a few years back. "You don't have to do much to get yourself shot...
...Chicago's poor West Side stands a building with no graffiti marring its walls, no windows boarded up. Inside, expensive audiovisual equipment sits in unlocked offices, while near by, students pursue a discussion of a Chekhov story and Richard Wright's Native Son. It is Providence-St. Mel High School, the West Side's remaining Roman Catholic secondary school and a fortress of civility ?and hope?for black teenagers...
Despite its remarkable achievements, the school is in a fight for survival, and this week's commencement could be the last. The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago plans to withdraw its subsidy this month. The archdiocese kept Providence-St. Mel going during a period of wrenching change in the late '60s and early '70s, when the school went from 50% white to all black, and enrollment (now 340) fell by two-thirds. More students are applying now, but the church says it cannot continue its $150,000 annual subsidy, which covers a third of the school's budget (the rest comes...