Word: arbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arbor, Mich...
...Arbor, Mich...
...women? Surprisingly, a strong candidate is the professional woman who hires a maid to care for her household while she is out building a career. So concluded Doris B. McLaughlin, a labor expert at the University of Michigan, who surveyed domestics working for 50 professional women in Ann Arbor and found that the employers were apt to deny their household help benefits they themselves take for granted. Less than 5% of the employers provide paid holidays and a scant 11% grant paid sick leave. Regular, automatic raises are given by only 17% of the employers and only...
...afternoons around 3:30, Joe ("Green") Verdi, Angelo ("Foots") Colombo, John ("Detroit") Agresti and other properly and not-so-properly nicknamed neighborhood men gather at Rose's Tavern for a glass of beer from the 7-ft. wooden cooler. Then they drift out back toward the grape arbor for a game of boccie. On Wednesdays, Amelia Garavaglia, 76, flours her plump, competent hands in the back room of Gioia's Corner Market and begins rolling out 5,000 ravioli for sale hi the front room. Each evening, Ida Galli switches on the spotlight hi her front yard...
...American and I began to talk. He was from Ann Arbor, Mich., and after graduating from the university there had gone to serve in the Peace Corps. He had originally worked in southern Bolivia, in the same area Che had operated in, but after a left-wing military coup in 1971 he had been forced out of the country with the rest of the corps. He was in La Paz on vacation from Nicaragua, where he was working. He told me of his experiences while in Bolivia, and how he'd been shot at during the time of the coup...