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The Monkey Trial: Round Two ServiceRita Ciolli"It is bigotry for the public schools to teach one theory of origin." The words aren’t from prosecutor William Jennings Bryan, but from defense counsel Clarence Darrow. He made the argument in 1925 during the famous Scopes’ "Monkey Trial." |
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Faces of the 80sFrank JohnstonWomen have been working in the coal mines for approximately a decade. |
Bombed, Burned, and BoycottedHazel Brannon Smith"If a Nigra won’t go along with our thinking on what’s best for the community as a whole," the man told me, "he’ll simply have his credit cut off."
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The Law Firm That Asbestos BuiltSusan Q. StranahanIt is moving day at the Philadelphia law firm of Shein and Brookman. Packing cartons spill out of offices into the hallways. The 11-man firm is about to leave its cramped quarters above a downtown bank and move to new offices in an opulent, historically certified brownstone building just off fashionable Rittenhouse Square. |
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Fear and Loathing In The Electronic WorkplaceOtis WhiteDETROIT–There is a distinctively carnival atmosphere to manufacturing trade shows, a blend of the bazaar and the bizarre, where managers and engineers can gape at offbeat entertainment and still go back to work the following Monday with enough specifications sheets in their briefcases to impress their bosses. At the AUTOFACT 5 trade show here last November, factory executives could contemplate "total materials handling" with the assistance of a serious young man in a dark suit at the Jervis B. Webb Co. booth. Or they could slip over to the other side of Cobo Hall, to the Digital Equipment Corp. pavilion, where three middle-aged actors in flowing robes were presenting a hammy one-act play.
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