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...revolt any time soon. "Now I make $2,400 a weekend less than I did before," Joannidi claims. "This fall I'll hafta lay off three people [out of seven]. The sandwiches go bad, the chartered buses just sit there on weekends, and I gotta pay for 'em. My business...
Charlie taught the kids to be little song-and-dance men, true troupers in the old vaudeville style. They would perform in shows at temples and hospitals around the city, where Elliott would knock 'em dead with a "Mary Had a Little Lamb" routine that Charlie taught him. "Mary had a little lamb, some peas and mashed potatoes/An ear of corn, some buttered beets and then had sliced tomatoes," and so on for a total of eight teeth-gnashing verses...
...liberated woman's Utopia, a sort of all-female 1984. They fear, as Cato suggested (circa 195 B.C.): "The moment they begin to be your equals, they will be your superiors." Men like San Francisco Plumber Dick Burke say that "if women want to be equal, let 'em; if they want to be plumbers, let 'em. But when they go out on a job, they're gonna have to lift 200 lbs. of pipe like any other plumber." The basic idea of job equality gets an approving nod from Andy Anderson, 42, a publicist for Southern Pacific Railway...
From Hoots to Groans. The Sunday pairings put Stockton head to head with Palmer, which is calculated to fluster any golfer. "Go get 'em, Arnie!" screamed the Army. "Shank it. Bury it in the sand," they hooted at Stockton. But then the hoots turned to groans...
...experience, workers handled the nerve gas with special care. A week before the gas arrived, all loading on the port's three wharves was stopped. When the gas trains were safely at dockside, the second phase-Operation Chase, a venerable Navy acronym for Cut Holes And Sink 'Em-was ready to start...