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...hand, I couldn't go to bed with him any more. He'd be more like a brother to me." Nonetheless, a group called Frankfurt Women's Action Group 1970 last month held its first teach-in in Frankfurt. The feminists marched outside the main railroad stations with signs proclaiming OUR BELLIES BELONG TO US. Within two hours they had collected more than 1,000 signatures on a pro-abortion petition-including that of the mayor of Frankfurt. Tired of being used only as secretaries and bed bunnies, the female members of Germany's student S.D.S...
...Nixon regime, already discredited by the Cambodia misadventure and its demonstrated hostility towards labor (via its official strike-breaking activity in the postal, railroad, and G.E. outbreaks), sensing a sudden, premature retirement, is too nervous to legislate controls. The liberal opposition is too interested in November to bare its heart. The political environment is right for introducing an altogether new type of "Control Policy."( The author, a 25-year-old Temple University graduate, is one of the founding members of the National Caucus of Labor Committees...
...noise shook green apples off the trees, moved a frog onto the railroad track, jolted nails out of the shingles in the roofs, and the hens in the poultry yards along the route laid premature eggs in fright." With slight Yankee exaggeration, a newspaper in 1885 described the first field day of the Connecticut Drummers Association in Walling ford, Conn. The fifes and drums echo anew each July along the Connecticut River, where sleepy New England villages like Chester, Deep River and Moodus quietly proclaim a heritage as old as the Republic itself. The occasion is the annual Deep River...
...white sand beaches and boardwalk carnival rides, Asbury Park, N.J., seems a tidy, if somewhat faded haven of tranquillity. But it is also, like many American small towns, a community where "across the tracks" still has a vivid, invidious meaning. To the east of the Penn Central railroad line, where well-kept lawns sweep toward the Atlantic Ocean, live most of Asbury Park's 12,500 whites. On the West Side, in a ghetto of frame houses splaying out from Springwood Avenue, live most of Asbury Park's 8,500 blacks. Last week the tranquillity was shattered...
...Penn Central case was a textbook example. After suffering grave operating losses, the railroad found itself with $152 million of commercial paper coming due this year. Unable to market new paper, or to get loans to pay off the old, the Penn Central had to declare bankruptcy...