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...parts in Chicago, loading post-office vans and delivering the mail in Atlanta, welding and operating metal-stamping machines in Fort Worth, driving cabs in Seattle, running power cranes in Los Angeles, and pumping gas at service stations along the Illinois Toll Road. Elsewhere, women have been engaged as draftsmen, meatcutters, warehouse laborers, helicopter pilots and company guards...
...would you like to do your husband a big favor?" cooed the radio ad. "It doesn't involve more cooking or housework." With that come-on, Pittsburgh's Dravo Corp. took into the kitchen its urgent plea for more engineers, draftsmen and designers: "Just mention Dravo to him when he gets home tonight...
Smith established himself within a year, mostly doing ballet backdrops, soon added a staff of up to four in the busy season. But they were only mockup builders and draftsmen to turn the Smith brainstorms into blueprints, for Smith has always been his own idea man. His most lasting innovation was the development of mobile scenery: his choreographed ballroom stopped the show in the midst of My Fair Lady. But Smith has never been criticized for scene stealing. He just takes them when they are there for the taking. In a viable writer's show like The Odd Couple...
...scathing order, Craven told North Carolina that imprisoning rather than treating Doyle "is a little like throwing Br'er Rabbit in the briar patch." And he asked: "Is it not time to redraft a criminal statute first enacted in 1533? And if so, cannot the criminal-law draftsmen be helped by those best informed on the subject-medical doctors...
...Soviet proposals are based on the assertion that German reunification is not a present-day problem, and can therefore be left until later. Nor is it a problem within the jurisdiction of the Big Four . . . The draftsmen of the Potsdam Treaties-U.S., Soviet Union and United Kingdom-would have been extremely surprised if they had been told that things would work out this way. Did they not point out very clearly that the peace treaty must be concluded with an all-German government? In fact, how could they possibly have imagined any other solution...