Word: helpers
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...does not really need one, and if he had one he would probably use it as a plumber's helper. At 42, Scott is easily one of the best actors in films today, a varied performer whose chameleon talents can always be counted on to enliven any project with vigor, subtlety and surprise. Or almost any project. Scott has muffed it occasionally. "Hell, I've compromised all my life. Ever see Not With My Wife, You Don't!* But something good always seems to come along sooner or later...
Gordon, a black journeyman painter, said that he had come to Harvard as a qualified painter and had been hired as a helper. "I spent eight hours a day doing exactly the same work as the painters," he said...
...rally centered mainly around the painters' helper issue. John Carol and Sonny Gordon, two Harvard painters, claimed that the painters' helpers category had been set up to hire black workers at lower wages...
Over in Simcoe, Ont., a young butcher's helper and part-time bass-guitar player named Rick Danko felt a similar urge. Driving up to his parents' home one evening in a friend's Cadillac, he cried out: "I've got to leave tonight; it's now or never!" He borrowed a coat, packed and was gone. One by one, Garth Hudson in London, Ont., Richard Manuel in Stratford, Ont., and Levon Helm, down on a bare subsistence farm in Marvell, Ark. (pop. 1,200), were making similar plans. To Helm, it was especially urgent. "You get out of school...
...charged only 25 of the students with these crimes. And in May's opinion, in fact, some of the charged students were guilty of more than chanting and linking arms, some of lesser offenses. A few including the chairmen of SDS and the leaders of the painters' helper campaign, were charged with all counts-from "entering the Office of the Dean of Harvard College without invitation" to "intervening with...the freedom of movement of the Dean of Harvard College by bodily resisting his efforts to depart from his office." Others were charged with lesser counts; many were not charged...