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Alan Gartner, chairman of Boston CORE, asserted that "the Trailways bus company here at Boston does not have a clean record, either. There are no colored employees in New England Trailways above the rank of porter or janitor." He also mentioned instances of discrimination in housing...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Freedom Rider Raps 'Cooling Off,' Tells 300 Marchers of Bus-Burning | 5/31/1961 | See Source »

...TIME Havana Correspondent Jay Mallin, who got out last week. The Cuban G-2 arrested him the day after invasion, questioned him, and then inexplicably released him. At 10:30 that night he heard car doors slam in the street outside his apartment house, looked out and saw his janitor leading a squad of G-2 men into the building. Mallin ran up a flight of stairs and hid in a hallway storage bin. The G-2 men waited in the apartment; Mallin waited in the bin. At 5 a.m. Mallin crept down the stairs, shoes in hand, and made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Outward Bound | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...chivato, or informer, was the object of universal hatred; Castro, in the fashion of Communist and fascist dictators, has turned the government stool pigeon into a national industry. Every block has one. In the great invasion roundup of 250,000 Cubans, the informer was apt to be the untipped janitor, the office wasp, the neighborhood malcontent-all of whom now had their chance for revenge. In the city of Matanzas, thousands of Cubans were penned up in the baseball stadium, and when they sent up a chant of protest, guards fired submachine-gun bursts over their heads. Sanitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Outward Bound | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...Buildings with nine or more families must now have a janitor. (Buildings with eight families need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Progress Report? | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...Janitor to Vice President. Under Yo shida, Dentsu is virtually a one-man show. Oh Oni even conducts the decisive interview before any new employee from janitor to vice president is hired. He some times buys an employee a new suit or pair of shoes to make him more presentable to clients, occasionally passes out golf-club memberships to his top men. "Golf is healthier than nightclubbing," he says. "And it affords time to talk with a client...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The View from Fuji | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

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