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Barbara's husband Lance was the foreman of the unloading crew at the cannery, operating the hoist that carried loads of fish from the boats up to the unloading dock, and tallying the weights. In his dirty white Levis, his quilted parka vest, with his wavy black hair combed back and a Camel firmly in the corner of his mouth, Lance looks about the way you'd expect an unloading foreman in a small town on the coast of Alaska to look...
...smoky stacks as a hazard. Combining insult with injury, the county tax assessor recently ruled that the berthed vessel is legally a building, and assessed it for $5,700,000. The new classification means that the Elizabeth is one of the few buildings in the world that can hoist anchor and sail away-if only to search for a friendlier tax jurisdiction...
Schools and universities will help to break down traditional sex roles, even when parents will not. Half the teachers will be men, a rarity now at preschool and elementary levels; girls will not necessarily serve cookies or boys hoist up the flag. Athletic teams will be picked only by strength and skill. Sexually segregated courses like auto mechanics and home economics will be taken by boys and girls together. New courses in sexual politics will explore female subjugation as the model for political oppression, and women's history will be an academic staple, along with black history, at least...
Missing X. Awaiting the cargo was the Le Baron Russell Briggs, a Liberty ship that obviously had known grander days. Pitted and charred, her hoist no longer works, and big red letters spelling EXPLOSIVES have been painted on her sides. In the early morning hours two gangs of longshoremen reported for duty. They had been given two days of crash orientation on the care and handling of gas. Run through a boxcar filled with tear gas, they learned how to apply atropine (the antidote to nerve gas) and how to fit gas masks. The job was not a lark...
...Hasty Hoist? A troubled Justice John M. Harlan concurred in the result, but not for White's reasons. Harlan has long resisted the court's insistence that virtually every standard in the federal Bill of Rights must be applied to state criminal proceedings. In his view, the states should indeed be free to have six jurors if they wish, but the Sixth Amendment should be clearly construed to make the Federal Government stick to twelve. The majority opinion, he argued, undermines the constitutional basis for juries of any size, particularly in federal cases. "If twelve jurors...