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...candidates call for taking the council out of the driver's seat in planning campus-wide events...
Incredulous, Randall ignored the summons. Six weeks later, he got a notice in the mail that his driver's license had been suspended for his failure to show up in court on the smoking charge. Randall grudgingly paid a $53 fine to get his license back. "It's so stupid," he said, pulling the crumpled summons from his jeans pocket. "My dad had to leave work and bring me all the way up here for smoking a cigarette...
...from an earlier $11.3 billion state settlement with the tobacco industry, special police patrols now scour public parks, malls and other places where teens light up. A first offense carries a fine of $53 or eight hours of community service. Kids caught smoking a third time automatically lose their driver's license. Some 800 young smokers have been ticketed...
...nurtured to a devoted commitment to unionism. His father, a brewery-wagon driver and union leader in Wheeling, W.Va., had the family regularly discuss the role of unions, as well as social and economic issues. Like thousands of others who lived in poor regions such as West Virginia, Walter and two of his brothers, Roy and Victor, migrated to the Detroit area to find jobs in the auto industry. Not surprisingly, they became actively involved in the budding United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers Union...
...Kroc was a brash 15-year-old who lied about his age to join the Red Cross as an ambulance driver. Sent to Connecticut for training, he never left for Europe because the war ended. So the teen had to find work, which he did, first as a piano player and then, in 1922, as a salesman for the Lily Tulip...