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...over the beachside terrain and headed for U.S. Navy ships on the horizon, there to set down its cargo just as gingerly. Meanwhile, 400 yds. to the west, a steady stream of landing craft nosed into a heavily fortified jetty and began collecting a seemingly endless line of forklift pallets lashed to more wooden crates. "The beach has been working 24 hours a day for the past two days," reported a Marine officer. "They are taking out the heavy equipment first -trucks, bulldozers, engineering equipment...
...tenement on Beusselstrasse, a bustling street in the working-class Moabit district. Melahab and her husband Mustafa, 45, share a three-room flat with their three youngest sons. Their daughters Nilguen and Aynur, 21, have a small apartment on the top floor of the same building. Mustafa is a forklift operator at the Siemens factory, where he has worked for 15 years. He is a cheerful, gregarious man. The wave of anti-Turkish sentiment has left him puzzled and saddened, and he sees little help from the national government. "I am not political," he says. "I don't know...
Some alumni, though, are not so enthusiastic. Says a 26-year-old office worker: "You feel different for a while, and then you're back to normal." The sternly taught lessons of Ise are stimulating, contends Suzuko Ogura, 19, a forklift operator for automaker Toyota, "but it's a lesson easy to forget...
...principal solos. The only departure from traditional ballet is the augmented role of the male lead. Nureyev has complained repeatedly that classical roles afford male principals too small a role, and his Don Quixote represents and attempt to make Basilio more than what critic John Lombard calls "a forklift for ballerinas...
Since losing his job as a forklift driver at a mill in Molalla, Ore., last August, James Wittig, 35, has been scrambling for a job. He applied to work as an exterminator and tried to land a job laying gravel. "I'll try anything, but there's nothing," he says. "If there's a job open in Oregon, there's at least 100 people trying to get it." Wittig's wife works as a cook for $360 a month to support him and their two children, but it is not nearly enough. Says Wittig...