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Harvard police received an anonymous call at 12:38 a. m. warning of the blast and cautioning, "This is not a joke. Remember the Brooklyn courthouse and California. Get the janitor out of the building. This is not a joke...
...Yesterday's explosion in Seattle caused $150,000 worth of damage to the Navy and Air Force ROTC building at the University of Washington. A janitor was taken out of the building just after the Seattle Fire Department, a local newspaper and the university received telephone calls warning of the bomb. The calls came about 25 minutes before the blast, estimated to have had the force of about 20 sticks of dynamite, went...
Fourth Man. "Martina has never changed," remarks Met Coloratura Reri Grist, a longtime friend. "She is the same person whether she talks to royalty or the janitor." Perhaps that is because when she was a child in Harlem, her father sometimes had to eke out his income as a mechanical engineer by working as an apartment house superintendent. Her mother occasionally hired out as a domestic. Martina was bright enough to pass the entrance tests at a demanding but free special high school run by Manhattan's Hunter College. Later, she went through Hunter itself in three years, majoring...
Every Wednesday and Thursday night, John L. Smith goes to a janitor's closet in the Kansas City, Mo., Federal Office Building and rolls out a battered metal dolly. It holds a filing cabinet full of academic-achievement tests, a carton of mimeographed math and reading drills, and a pile of pocket-size dictionaries. "This is our school," he says. In the past five years, the cart's contents have brought 2,500 school dropouts all they need to crack the barrier between them and a better job: a high school equivalency diploma...
...cases. Until last summer, Fred McCoy was principal of the all-black Midway Elementary School in Natalbany, La. Integration closed his school, and he was assigned to teach a fourth-grade class at a formerly all-white school-in the morning. In the afternoon, he was expected to do janitor's chores in the school latrines. At least McCoy kept busy. A black former principal in Louisiana has been given a desk to sit at but no title or duties that he has been able to determine...