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...candidates' parents. As Missy Holland '73, a member of the staff, said "We don't want to fault a kid because of the family background she has had. Different kinds of support at home are taken into consideration along with what they've accomplished. We will take a ship-fitter's daughter who has done less in extra-curricular activities but has also held down a 20 hour a week job, before a corporation's lawyer's daughter who didn't do anything with her time...
...other convictions were of Halsted L. Fitter and Robert W. Archbald. Both set important precedents, but it was the 1912 impeachment of California Federal Judge Archbald that established a significant principle in the question of whether an impeachable offense must involve a criminal act. Archbald faced charges of accepting money and favors-but his misbehavior was considered unethical rather than criminal. His lawyer, Alexander Simpson, argued that criminality must be involved. Treason, bribery and high crimes are by definition criminal, he observed. "Everybody knows that a misdemeanor taken technically is a crime pure and simple," he said...
...camera to cut away just when things grow unendurable. Boredom is an important part of real social documentation, although in spite of it we never feel here that these workers are too immiserated. At some points the deftness of a spray painter, or the practiced touch of a door fitter, becomes surprisingly absorbing; at others, the jerky, repeated shifting of an eye as a girl watches her machine, or a stoic machinist impart the pain of a single muscle and the exhaustion of an unmoving face...
...last fling before adulthood closed in? The jobs Fuller held in early manhood might lead one to think so: machine fitter in a cotton mill. Navy ensign during World War I, managing exports for a meat packer and sales for a truck company. The presidency of the Stockade Building System (1922-27) sounds more like it. Fuller and his father-in-law copatented a tough, light substitute for bricks that eliminated the need for hod carriers and mortars. Holes in the blocks were lined up and cement poured in. Both the brick industry and the unions ganged up against...
...Washington only one day a week, the group has operated with an unorthodox autonomy that has ruffled some Pay Board bureaucrats and pooh-bahs from nonconstruction unions. Yet after 20 months of free-form negotiations, Committee Chairman John Dunlop, a Harvard dean who talks more like a pipe fitter than a pedagogue, can justifiably say of the nation's oldest wage-control apparatus: "We've done a lot better than I thought we would or most other people thought we would...