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...other inducement is the handy and informal office, which may be located anywhere Ward has room-near the credit department, say, or cheek by dowel with carpentry tools. Clients commonly bring in problems involving family law, traffic tickets, personal injury or wills. Since so many of these troubles tend to fit patterns, J & M can rely heavily on standard legal forms. As a result, the lawyers, who generally have at least four years of experience, can handle cases more quickly-the key to any clinic's low fees. To make payment even less painful, J & M accepts credit cards...
...When I watch TV now," says Hugh Saunders, president of a dowel-making firm in Westbrook, Me., "I feel angry to think that this country took so long to realize that it was destroying itself and the Vietnamese by being there." Complains Lawrence Sullivan, an official of the Greater Boston Labor Council: "I hear Schlesinger and Kissinger, and I say, 'Hey, you're not speaking...
THERE WAS ONE peculiar thing about many of these houses: curious ornaments under their eaves, a kind of gingerbread or lathed dowel work created when the houses were built in the eighties or nineties by, we fantasized, a craftsman who while still a boy had come back from Lee's troops--Lee's Miserables, as one good Baptist preacher punned--or Johnson's, retreating north from Sherman. (Sherman's Memoirs, horribly written, in a thick green volume with the general's stars on the spine, talks about approaching Exeter...
Although it is not listed in the yellow pages (after "Dowels and Dowel Pins" comes "Draft Controls, see thermometers"), BDRG has a full-fledged and publicly-acknowledged existence at 102 Columbia St., Cambridge, two blocks off Central Square...
When he retired six years ago at 77, Big Bill Hutcheson was known as the ruthless dictator of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, a key dowel in the U.S. labor movement for more than 30 years. Before his death in 1953 he had bequeathed his claw hammer to his complaisant son Maurice, who finished construction of the union by bringing the membership to 850,000. cut for himself a slot in the loftiest beams of labor leadership-vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., member of the executive council. Last week at 60, Carpenter Maurice Hutcheson dodged...