Word: helpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schedule called for finishing high school, then working for two years to earn money to go to college, then attending North Carolina's Davidson College (where his father had studied), then winning a Rhodes scholarship and studying at Oxford. True to his plan, he worked as a general helper in a small law office for two years after high school, then used his savings to get started at Davidson College (which he calls "the poor man's Princeton"), where he majored in political science. At Davidson, he recalls, he "never stopped running." Between classes...
...camera work was shaky, some of the cutting rough. As an editorial, the program was impassioned rather than closely reasoned. But the report hit like a fist and left some haunting images in the viewers' minds: the despair of an out-of-work electrician's helper in a dirt-floored hut in Caracas; the satisfaction of a fisherman whose family has a fine new cottage in a Cuban cooperative-and the naively shrewd question of an old crone about how the family's wretched old furniture would look in the new house...
...steel producer (after U.S. Steel). He succeeds Arthur B. Homer, who becomes chairman of the board and continues as chief executive officer. Chicago-born Ed Martin joined Bethlehem in 1922 after graduating from Stevens Institute of Technology, worked his way up in the mills from a repairman's helper to general manager of the giant Lackawanna plant in 1950. vice president for steel operations...
...taking his final bar exams: "In Ghana we have big families because we have more than one wife. Family members band together to send the brilliant one to London to study and improve himself. But it is not always enough. For myself, I have to work as a kitchen helper in the evening. I'm in a lawyer's chamber in Middle Temple in the day. I study in between. It's the only work I can get-no one here will give you anything else...
...Colored People, and chief counsel for the 153 students who have been arrested in Nashville's rash of sit-in demonstrations. Said Councilman Looby after the bombing: "This won't stop me." Said redheaded Mayor Ben West to the well-behaved crowd: "As God is my helper, the law is going to be enforced in Nashville...