Word: garbagemen
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POPE! bannered the big greeting sign. Pope Paul VI beamed back at the 3,000 spanking-clean garbagemen and street sweepers who showed up smelling as fresh as flowers for the Pontiff's visit at the downtown Municipal Sanitation Center. "One should not be ashamed of one's work," the Pope told them solemnly. "What would our city be like if it were not for work like yours that keeps it clean?" The garbagemen shouted back, "Viva il Papa!" Then two days later they answered his rhetoric by going on strike, leaving mountains of refuse all over Rome...
Gloves for Garbagemen. Jânio's triumph brought into startling prominence in Brazil an unpredictable personality who owes allegiance to no party but has never lost an election, who sometimes talks like a two-cruzeiro demagogue but insists that "all my intellectual formation is based on Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln." He began his political climb in 1946 by winning a seat in the São Paulo city council with the help of worshipful pupils and ex-pupils. From there he went on to the state legislature, where he sponsored a record 2,007 bills (60 passed, including...
...were water. They crowded Caracas stores to buy U.S.-made pedal-operated jeeps for their small fry. They stormed bars to set up drinks for friends and strangers. They shopped for Christmas presents, clothes, champagne, even Canadian-grown Christmas trees. They dropped silver bolivars into the hands of garbagemen, messengers, menials. Even the poorest of them splurged on big hallacas (tamales made from corn, chicken, spices, meat and rice) and bottles...
Casually passing in the East River was Customs patrol-boat 546, John Beach commanding. To him it seemed a strange time for garbagemen to be at work. Quietly he ordered his five men to dock their craft, disembark, surround the scene of activity. When one of the big trucks started to leave, out from hiding jumped Officer Beach, fired a shot in the air, precipitated a scuffle which netted the U. S. 22 prisoners, a score of knives & pistols, $60,000 of bourbon whiskey and champagne...