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...TRUCKING: Fifteen cents divided the Teamsters and the trucking firms. The union (negotiating a major contract for the first time since 1958 without imprisoned Jimmy Hoffa) was demanding an hourly pay increase of 56? over the next three years and 21? in fringe benefits for the 250,000 members involved. The Teamsters now average between $3.25 and $3.80 an hour. The truckers offered 50? wage hikes with added benefits worth...
Buddenhagen and senior Dan Gleason, president of the club, will lead the 20-man team. "Fifteen guys play on each side, and there are no substitutions," Buddenhagen said, "but someone always gets hurt so we need some spares...
...rush hour Bartley's is strictly for undergraduates and Widener types. Students arrive in groups of four and five, or at least in pairs. They laugh and joke a lot; and they don't mind waiting fifteen minutes for a hamburger. If you're in a hurry, try the counter. For amusement there are two highly comical drink machines, one containing grape, the other red punch. Always in motion, they slop and squirt the liquid up, down, all around. On especially good days, they become phallic; the punch machine plays the male to the grape machine's female...
...asks for shishkebab. "We're all out," says Tommy. Shishkebab is a standing joke at Tommy's. They never serve it there. Blitman orders a hamburger plate. For only 85c he gets two hamburgers, one bun, two pads of butter, lettuce and tomato, mayonnaise, and french fries. A fifteen cent coke brings the price of dinner to one dollar even...
...Leverett sophomore year, but has sacrificed even that in favor of track. Aside from Dressler and Gilbert, who quit after a week, Ekdahl is the only one who tried out for the varsity, and he gave up before Christmas after a memorable game in which Wilson used him for fifteen-second stretches as a defensive specialist. There are others around: Alan Talesnik, Tom Perkins, and Andy Lewis have played for Winthrop; Barry Goldstein was on Kirkland's "B" team; Larry Gonick made Phi Beta Kappa; Larry O'Brien plays with Ekdahl on Leverett's squad. Gary Vechnak, who scored...