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...assembly-line workers in On the Line--a black tenor with operatic ambitions, a shrunken Polish immigrant who dreams of buying his son a car for his high school graduation, foreman unable to cope with the car-smashing tough-punk rage of an Italian boy put on an impossible schedule by a time-study engineer--find little satisfaction in the labor they perform. But out of their relationships to one another at union picnics as well as in the plant, Swados's people make their mechanized factory into a human place. And though each of them is unique, there...
...games were played on neighborhood streets and young Bernie, always a loner, wanted to play goalie from the start. "I stopped the first shot and that settled it," he recalls. "The challenge to make a save was always there. It was just in me." The son of a factory foreman, Parent did not start skating until he was 11, and then his debut in the goal was not promising: he missed 21 shots. Nevertheless, Parent was hooked. "For Bernard, hockey is an obsession," says his older brother Yvan, a Montreal psychologist. "All he ever wanted...
LEVISON PROVIDES an education for middle-class radicals and liberals: he simply describes the working day of an industrial or blue-collar worker. A worker is forced to submit to military authoritarianism while on the job: he or she must do what the foreman demands. Most factories have rules--despite "job enrichment" programs--which prohibit "cat calls, horseplay, making preparation to leave before the whistle sounds, littering, wasting time, and loitering in the toilets." In addition, some companies have the right to discipline workers for "using abusive language" and 'distracting the attention of other employees." Levison sums up the much...
...picked the Colts over the Jets in 1967? George Foreman over Muhammad Ali? Who was wrong? (Jimmy the Greek...
...Horsepower. Pittsburgh will have to do every bit as well to contain scrambling Fran Tarkenton and the Vikings. In his 15th N.F.L. season, Tarkenton, 34, has lost little of his shifty speed and maneuverability. And this year, as last, he has impressive horsepower behind him, notably Running Backs Chuck Foreman and Dave Osborn. Foreman ran for 777 yds., caught 53 passes and scored 15 touchdowns (tops in the league) in helping the Vikings run up a 10-4 record. For the long bomb Minnesota has mercurial John Gilliam at wide receiver...