Word: handymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest crisis was triggered by a strike of 7,000 apartment-house service employees-doormen, elevator operators, handymen- against the landlords of 1,500 rent-controlled dwellings. The workers, whose average weekly pay is $85, sought an $18 raise. The owners responded by demanding repeal of the city's rent-control law, an anachronistic World War II anti-inflationary measure that makes no economic sense but is beloved by voters- and politicians- because it keeps many rents below market levels. Caught in the bind, a quarter of a million tenants found themselves without hot water, heat, elevator service, garbage...
...enough to make the most seasoned performers pack up their axes, but the Handymen-Guitarist Gerry Hahn, Violinist Mike White, Drummer Terry Clarke and Bassist Don Thompson-rallied with some surprises of their own. Turning to Handy's Scheme No. I, they erupted in a dreamy and delirious atonal free-for-all, creating a great whirl of sound, like a radio with the dial spinning at peak volume. Handy, looking like a Chinese Pope in his foot-high brocade hat, sketched high looping solos that trembled and fluttered. When it was over, the sellout crowd of 7,000 turned...
...relatively effective service. Gerard Verger, 33, and Joel Laval, 31, started SOS (telephone SOS 99-99) in 1961 with two motorcycles and two trucks. Today, they operate 100 trucks, all radio-equipped, that are manned by a versatile crew of not only plumbers but carpenters, locksmiths, electricians, and appliance handymen-each with a trade-school diploma. Working on a 24-hour-a-day schedule, SOS answers 100,000 calls a year...
...Lowndes County." He argued that no man has the right to kill just because he is enraged at the sight of a white and a Negro sitting together in the same car. Such scenes, he said, are common in Lowndes County, where white people drive home their Negro maids, handymen and cooks. "If that's grounds for murder, blood can flow in Lowndes County." The Klan, he said, had killed a defenseless woman. "Is that the kind of bravery we fought for? I'd say not." Gantt concluded by invoking the name of Alabama's Governor...
...bales of advance TV and newspaper publicity, a monster rally of loyal Teamsters, with Hoffa as featured speaker, filled less than half the 3,800-capacity Cincinnati Music Hall. Last week, as the National Labor Relations Board began hearings on the new election that Luken wants, Hoffa and his handymen as much as admitted that the operation would take longer than expected: Gibbons set up a new regional office for the Cincinnati Teamsters-and took out a two-year lease on a suite in a downtown building. But Luken was confident that his dissidents would remain in dissent. Said...