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Mosiello has abandoned trying to prove his innocence while still in prison. Instead, he hopes that the Governor will find his unusual accomplishments a mark of rehabilitation and cut his life sentence to 25 years, thus making him immediately eligible for parole. Deep into the night, residents along the catwalk of 3 Tier can hear Mosiello working away at an IBM Selectric in his book-packed 5-ft. by 7-ft. cell. Like any other ambitious executive, he hopes his overtime labors are a signal to his superiors that he is ready for upward, to say nothing of outward mobility...
...year he got his wish. He was assigned to the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Monterey in the South Pacific. Although he was under enemy fire in several major battles, his closest brush with death came during a typhoon that nearly washed him overboard; he was saved by landing on a catwalk beneath him. The Monterey was a "lucky" ship, said Ford...
...boat and it's hauling ass for the dock all by itself when it stalls; so help me Christ, if that thing had hit that dock we would have been in jail for a hundred years, or something; I get out of the water and run up on this catwalk at the back of this building, and I run around the corner, bang!, no more goddamn catwalk and I take a thirty foot drop into two feet of water; and then there were more cops than I had ever seen in my life. So we go to court and everybody...
...temperatures in the plant seemed a lot higher than 110, and one worker standing near the spectator's catwalk suggested that visitors touch the metal floor above one of the rollers to get an idea of how hot the place is. Most of the workers on the floor ignored the tour and went on working; one ate his lunch and worked at the same time, and the only woman we saw on the floor waved as she carried some fenders away from a machine...
Once the towers were built, a cable could be tugged across the river and then hoisted above them. Progressively stronger cables and at last a catwalk followed. From there it was comparatively easy--stringing the rest of the cables from tower to tower, dropping steel suspenders from the cables, building a roadway on the steel suspenders--but it took seven more years. That a bridge could be built on such a scale was astonishing. That it should rise triumphantly above the graft, conspicuous consumption, and suffering that had once been the American dream--and such a beautiful bridge--that...