Working. Part 42

Mineral rights.

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A major multilane expressway running through Chicago.

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During the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam, Friedheim, a public relations officer of the Defense Department, was the Administration's spokesman in dealing with the press.

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"In New York, stewardesses live five or six girls to one apartment. They think they can get by because they're in and out so much. But there's gonna be a few nights they're all gonna be home at once and a couple of 'em will have to sleep on the floor."

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p.r.o.nounced "beer."

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A play in which he appeared, starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

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From Notes on a Cowardly Lion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969), John Lahr's biography of his father Bert Lahr, the highly gifted clown: "Advertis.e.m.e.nts for potato chips have made more people aware of his face than ever before. He invented a catchword for the product-'de-lay-cious'-turning his comedy easily from art to marketing. Cab drivers stop their cabs to yell, 'Bet you can't eat just one.' Grandmothers accost him like one of their own to ask if he really eats potato chips. These commercials, amounting to work more easily measured in minutes than days, earns him $75,000 a year, far more than a season on Broadway. . . . He is proud to have survived and succeeded in this newest facet of show business, the television commercial. But he is perplexed. His laughter was meant for people, not merchandise. The paradox has been hard for him to resolve. Even though his commercials are excellent and he has devised many of their comic situations, he is suspicious, 'I wonder if these ads have been good for my career? Here's a strange thing, John: after all these years of struggle, the biggest success I've had is in these trite commercials. It's stupid.' "

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The outbreaks in poor black communities following the a.s.sa.s.sination of Martin Luther King.

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Many years ago I conducted a radio news commentary program, whose sponsor was a credit clothing house. I was fired in one week. As the sponsor put it, "For Chrissake, his listeners barge into the store, payin' cash for everything! Cash, for Chrissake! I need that kind like a hole in the head. I want the element that buy on credit, no money down. What the h.e.l.l do you think I'm in business for? Get rid of this guy, he's trouble."

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Deadbeat.

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There have been rumors through the past several years that the Syndicate controls these concessions. There is a natural reluctance on the part of attendants to discuss it. A similar phenomenon is the parking lot.

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"He" was another washroom attendant.

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It was the week of Chicago's Big Snow-In, beginning January 25, 1967. Traffic was hopelessly snarled. Scores of thousands couldn't get to work.

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The boundary line separating Chicago from the North Sh.o.r.e suburb, Evanston

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A realty phenomenon in Chicago: quickly constructed four-story buildings, with an open parking lot as its ground floor. The apartments are mostly one-room and two. Charges have been made by community groups that the material is shoddy and the buildings quickly deteriorate while the fast-buck entrepreneurs take the money and run. Zoning changes, due to these complaints, have, for the time being, discouraged further construction of four-plus-ones.

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Illinois Inst.i.tute of Technology.

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Big Bill Broonzy, the late blues artist, frequently told the story of his visit to his mother, who lived in the outskirts of Little Rock, Arkansas. He was driving a Cadillac. A white policeman flagged him down. "Whose car is this, boy? Ain't yours, is it?" "No, sir. It belongs to my boss." "Okay."

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Lower-middle-cla.s.s white neighborhoods, where blacks are not welcome.

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His most recent a.s.signment: guarding an alley behind police headquarters, "It's their way of trying to humiliate me."

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A note of One Worldism might be in order at this point. A news item: Bangkok, Thailand (UPI)-"Police battled a gang of bandits in southern Thailand Sat.u.r.day. One bandit was killed. A police spokesman said the battle began when the bandit gang, disguised as policemen, challenged a group of policemen disguised as bandits."

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