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Citizen's Action Program. It was originally called Committee Against Pollution. It is a gra.s.s-roots organization that began in Father Dubi's community and has expanded in members.h.i.+p as well as in aims. It has challenged, on specific occasions, the political as well as the industrial power brokers of the city.

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Two of Mayor Daley's most perfervid spokesmen in the city council.

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Chicago Housing Authority.

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This battle was apparently won. The newly elected governor, Dan Walker, had committed himself to opposing its construction. Mayor Daley still insists he'll go ahead . . . At the moment. the issue is joined.

As for the most recent development: "Mayor Daley has won the right to bypa.s.s Governor Walker and build the Crosstown Expressway with city funds under terms of a compromise federal highway bill approved by a House-Senate conference committee" (Chicago Sun-Times, July 22, 1973). Moral: The fight to save a neighborhood is forever.

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County a.s.sessor.

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I was present at the lobby rally. I had been invited to act as the MC. It was my most exhilarating experience, too.

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R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience (New York: Pantheon Books, 1967).

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His son Tom recalls his father's craftsmans.h.i.+p: "If there was the tiniest s.p.a.ce, he could swing back the biggest truck in there, one, two, three, wit' maybe one inch to spare. This little guy up there in 'at truck . . ."

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His son Tom recalls: "My father was blacklisted in 1949 and used to have a bodyguard and all this . . ." Bob, his other son, remembers: "At the time of the strike my father went on the radio with Mayor LaGuardia."

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"You go on false alarms, especially two or three in the afternoon, kids comin' home from school. And four in the morning when the bars are closed. Drunks. Sometimes I get mad. It's ten, eleven at night and you see ten, twenty teen-agers on the corner and there's a false alarm on that corner, you know one of 'em pulled it. The kids say, 'What's the matter, man? What're ya doin' here?' and they laugh. You wanna say, 'You stupid f.u.c.k, you might have a fire in your house and it could be your mother.'"

Other Books by Studs Terkel.

American Dreams.

Lost and Found.

Division Street.

America.

Giants of Jazz.

"The Good War"

An Oral History of World War II.

Hard Times.

An Oral History of the Great Depression.

Hope Dies Last.

Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times.

My American Century.

The Spectator.

Talk About Movies and Plays with the People Who Make Them.

Talking to Myself.

A Memoir of My Times.

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith.