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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...center of oil and agriculture, a major aircraft producer (Boeing, Beech, Cessna). It is also Middle America. Blacks make up just 12% of its population; it is only by accident of rotation that the single city commissioner who is black will become its next mayor. Wichita is a "placid" sort of place, says outgoing Mayor Donald Enoch. It is deeply conservative; the town fathers banned a proposed Wichita production of Hair. Chester Lewis, a former regional N.A.A.C.P. director who now practices law in Wichita, observes: "The Silent Majority is what this city is all about...
What with the goodbye gifts from the Tribe, they lived in plenty of one sort...
...build highways -hardly the country's most pressing social need-and a spurt in highway construction would divert resources from the genuine need of private housing.Said one Administration staff economist: "I can't understand all the excitement about the construction bit. It's all really sort of a shell game...
...permits massive discrimination in rates, a practice that it was expressly set up to forbid. Where railways have no water-borne competition they have charged shippers five times as much, computed on a cents per ton-mile basis, as they charged in areas where they had to compete. That sort of practice, the report argues, has caused consumers to pay an incalculable amount in excess charges and has led to severe distortions in the economy. In addition, carriers charge more per pound for high-value, mostly finished items than for bulk cargo. The pricing structure tends to make it more...
...jury, interviewed after the trial, was white, middle class and often confused. The judge, Zita Weinshienk, a bright but engagingly modest lady of 36, was seen in her chambers researching puzzling points in Black's Law Dictionary. The prosecutor was a stodgy, humorless sort who spoke in impenetrable legal jargon and once, while examining his witness on the term "pig," inquired: "Officer, were there any animals of the porcine specie there?" The defense attorney was a dynamic 28-year-old who may have seemed too cocky and slick to the Colorado jurors...