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...local handyman, the suspect tin the Boston area's latest strangling, was arrested yesterday by Cambridge police in an apartment house near Central Square...
After some arguing about who their candidate was going to be, the Democrats picked portly William Grader, 45, owner of a fish-processing plant and sometime political handyman for Congressman Miller. Grader was little known among the voters, and Republicans did as little as possible to call him to their attention. Democrats tried to concoct an issue by calling Clausen "Dodging Don," offering a $100 prize to anyone who could get him on the same platform with Grader...
Played Out. The terror and tragedy that had struck the Sillan household left Westport in shock. Householders locked doors, double-checked windows and waited in dark apprehension, as if time itself had been suspended. The police, meanwhile, worked methodically and got on the trail fast. They discovered that a handyman named Harlis Miller, 31, had not reported for work the day following the crime; he had disappeared with his common-law wife Rosalie. He fitted Gail's description of a handyman she had seen working in the neighborhood; he had worked once at the Sillan place...
...tubby onetime coal-mine handyman has West Germany's industrial titans worried. As boss of his nation's 522,000-member mine and power workers' union, Heinrich Gutermuth, 64, recently inveigled the Adenauer government into arbitrating a 7% wage rise for his Ruhr miners by threatening a strike on the eve of important local elections. West Germany's faltering coal industry will have to rely on some sort of government subsidy to meet the extra $82 million-a-year wage bill. Now Gutermuth is touring the Common Market nations urging all six to nationalize their coal...
Denmark: William McCormick Blair Jr., 44, lawyer with no diplomatic experience. Second cousin of the Chicago Tribune's late publisher, Colonel Robert McCormick, moneyed Bill Blair served as administrative assistant to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, became his law partner, campaign manager and general political handyman...