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...longer news. But it is not just those seeking engineers, accountants, computer systems analysts and other highly skilled workers who are having trouble finding help. Employers seeking to fill seasonal and entry-level jobs demanding no experience and little skill -- dishwasher, store clerk, hotel maid, gas-station attendant, farmhand, to name just a few -- are often having just as much difficulty or more...
...affiliate in Columbus, Georgia, this summer. He would probably be at the AAA level in most other organizations, but the pitching-rich Astros have a full staff at their Pacific Coast League club in Tucson...After a year with Geneva of the New York-Pennsylvania league. Chicago Cubs farmhand ROB ALEVIZOS, last year's top Harvard pitcher, has reportedly decided to pack it in and end his baseball career. "He recognized his limitations." Crimson coach Alex Nahigian said, discussing possible reasons for Alevizos' decisions. The Newton native is learning his father's real estate business...
...Carter who mounted the dais at Anthony's, different from the folksy campaigner who found so much in common in his own pastoral Southern roots and those of the Italians of the North End. When the new Carter mused autobiographically, he omitted stories about his years as a struggling farmhand in Plains, and focused instead on his "background in physics" and his tour of duty aboard one of the nation's first nuclear submarines. He gave a mournful lecture on the power of the megaton--"a lot of explosives"--and gallantly accepted "the most important single responsibility on the shoulders...
...abused and cheated by the white farmers he worked for, at the same time he is contemptuous of the half-drunken mysticism of the Aborigines, now to be forever kept on the outskirts of a completely foreign civilization. Blacksmith seems at first to be the deferential pragmatist, the smiling farmhand, somehow above the almost ludicrous racism of his employers. When he's cheated he laughs his strange Aborigine laugh and goes on--he seems to sense the irony. One sees his opportunism as he silently smiles through an uncomfortable dinner with the missionary couple who raised him. The minister tells...
...proof, Van Tonder refers proudly ; to "Danger" Mahlangu, his farmhand, who is paid $120 a month. Van Tonder also supplies a house for Mahlangu and his family, plus board, fuel and medical care. Mahlangu's grandfather, who was also born in this area, belonged to the small Ndebele tribe which came under the "protection" of the Boers when they were threatened by the warlike Zulus. Says Van Tonder: "My people saved the Ndebele from extermination." Last weekend there was a three-day feast and tribal dancing in honor of Mahlangu's 13-year-old daughter, who was welcomed...