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...their eagerness to ward off just such a disaster, both sides made concessions. The Government, which had earlier pledged not to negotiate until the strike ended, seized on a developing back-to-work trend as an excuse to open talks with union leaders. The mailmen, who had vowed to stay out until Congress took action on their wage demands, settled for the opening of serious talks with Administration officials-though the Executive Branch by itself has no authority to set pay scales...
ECOLOGY is too new a science to have examined the ghetto systematically. Yet it is clear that the country's environmental blight most severely affects the millions who are marooned in black inner cities-Hough (Cleveland), Harlem (New York), Roxbury (Boston), the Hill (Pittsburgh), the Central Ward (Newark). In Chicago, which has been called the most segregated city in America, roughly 1,100,000 blacks make up almost one-third of the population and are overwhelmingly confined to black poverty areas. According to Sociologist Pierre de Vise, research director of the city's hospital planning council, those areas...
...that Thomas Atkins, the black councillor from Roxbury, or Joe Timilty, who lives in Mattapan, or Jerry O'Leary, from South Boston, or Louise Day Hicks were going to vote for that proposal. The Council is chosen in an at-large election, but on Monday it was ward politics that were talking, and ward politics demand a certain amount of fence-sitting...
...Ward-Heelers and Political Hacks
...feelings in Neponset on the stadium were made perfectly, if somewhat emotionally, clear last week during a public hearing in which every ward-heeler and political hack in Dorchester and South Boston took the dais to contribute his share of abuse...