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...hair! My time is up in February 1985, and I ain't looking back, man. I wanted combat engineering. I wanted to be somebody when I got out. They give me infantry. So what are my skills? I could be a security guard, or I could be a janitor. You see, I spend a lot of time cleaning things. I know how to clean things...
Kennedy never yielded. Growing weary with the naysayers, he scolded his space experts: "If somebody can just tell me how to catch up. . . I don't care if it's the janitor over there, if he knows how." Kennedy prodded, pleaded and threatened, and managed to launch the Apollo program...
March 4, 6:30 a.m. A janitor at the Cronkhite Graduate Center let in two men who said they were looking for a friend. The janitor later noticed two grandfather clocks and a large Oriental rug missing from the common room...
Despite annual accusations, there are no more inside jokes at the Law School production than at the Hasty Pudding, Besides, these in-jokes are actually funny. Anyone who has ever spent the night in the Science Center can appreciate the repeated cameo appearances of a janitor who says, while pointing at the ceiling and nodding his head in a gesture that comprehends everything and nothing, "And when you finish, de lights?" Although technically legalese, lines like "I'm going to play with my model penal code" are accessible...
...skillfully assembles interviews with 28 men and women at Memorial Medical Center, the fictitious name used to disguise a major teaching hospital in the San Francisco area. Michael Medved (What Really Happened to the Class of '65) has induced Memorial's physicians, nurses, technicians and even the janitor to unload about their jobs, themselves and each other. He has given them pseudonyms and heavily edited their contributions to produce a compelling pace and tone...