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...precisely the racism of "clerical inefficiency" that is the hardest to pin down and the hardest to combat. There is no recognizable ill-will, nor is there any overt discrimination that can be attacked. But the end result is the same: A repressed minority group continues to be repressed...
...sign of good faith"- a monumental food giveaway to every low-income or aged person or ex-convict in California, which could cost up to $400 million - Randolph Hearst proceded to outline a more modest offer. It was a food-distribution plan, called "People in Need," or PIN, modeled on a highly successful Washington State program created in 1970 to provide basic groceries for families that could not afford them. Hearst promised to fund the plan with $2 million, of which $1.5 million would come from the charitable foundation created by his late father Publisher William Randolph Hearst. The remainder...
...while, PIN united an unlikely assortment of volunteers in the give-it-all dedication that a crisis often inspires. A prominent backer of the Seattle plan, Washington Secretary of State A. Ludlow Kramer, took over as temporary director of PIN. Offers of warehouse space, trucks and food donations poured in from private businesses and public agencies. At the Hearst Corp. offices in downtown San Francisco, a bank of 20 telephones jangled constantly as citizens called in to volunteer help in handing out food; a reporter counted 32 calls in less than a minute...
...capability" and that the matter of his daughter's plight "is now out of my hands." Then the publisher of the Hearst Corp.'s San Francisco Examiner, Charles L. Gould, quickly made another desperate counteroffer. The Hearst Corp., he said, would donate the additional $4 million to PIN "provided Patricia Hearst is released unharmed." Gould made it clear that the offer was final. The stage was thus set for the S.L.A. to reach a decision on Patricia's fate: to release her, to hold her as a "prisoner of war" indefinitely or to carry out the grisly...
...played with sheer guts. From a king pawn opening, undertaken on Reinfields's advice, I would launch into an attack trying to win a few pieces. By third grade, I had mastered the rudiments of the knight fork. By fourth grade, I was pondering the implications of the pin. For a while, I met with success--chess became a way for a runt to get back at the world...