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Several months later. I embarked on the most tortuous Amtrak adventure possible--a ten-hour ride to Utica, N.Y., to visit a friend at a nearby college. If you figure that the distance from Boston to Utica is about 300 miles, and that the train ride is ten hours (as opposed to five by car), it's easy to deduce that you're trucking along at the estimable rate of 30 m.p.h. Any way you cut it, the company you choose will probably begin to wear a little thin...
...Utica Avenue in Brooklyn, Ernie Blye, a black man, stayed at his tailor shop all night long, grasping a gun, his German shepherd at his heels. A gang of men began to menace him. He cried out: "If you shoot me, my dog will get you!" They closed in relentlessly. Blye shouted again: "I got ten cans of potash upstairs! I'm goin' upstairs now! I blind you, you come up the stairs after me! I blind you!" The crowd left him alone...
...these issues: they like the image of the man as a whole. Says Charles Bowser, chairman of the Philadelphia Party, a predominantly black Democratic faction: "Carter has changed the tone for the better. He is making the presidency relate to the people again." Adds Republican Farmer Dennis Richters of Utica, Neb.: "The sincerity is still there. He may be showing some signs of being naive, and people may be questioning some of his gestures, but there is no great unhappiness with him." Polls in California show that Carter now has the highest popularity of any modern President...
...union leaders say that serious boycott preparations started only in January. One problem they face is that much of Stevens' output is unfinished cloth sold to other manufacturers, and the company's own consumer products sell under a bewildering variety of private labels and brand names, including Utica blankets and Gulistan carpets. Some, like Yves Saint Laurent sheets, bear designer names. Nonetheless, ACTWU is printing up thousands of wallet-sized cards listing labels, and plans to take ads in local papers to persuade housewives to boycott Stevens...
PENSION-FUND POWER. Unlike their colleagues in unions belonging to the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which prohibits salaried officials from being paid for managing pension funds, Teamster bosses have turned these funds into another source of bounty. For managing the fund at Local 182 in Utica, N.Y., for example, Teamster Boss Rocco dePerno drew nearly $20,000 in 1974, over and above his regular salary of $46,000 and the $30,890 he got as a general organizer. Even non-Teamsters share the pension riches. In 1974 the administrator of the Ohio Drivers' Welfare Fund, Dayton Attorney Robert Knee...