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After earning a B.A. in public administration, Lott enrolled in the Ole Miss law school. By now his parents were separated and unable to help him financially. He had saved some money from summer jobs at a root-beer stand in Pascagoula and at the local hospital as a janitor mopping rooms. He took out federal student loans. And he secured paid jobs with the university, first as a recruiter and later as a fund raiser for the alumni association, where he expanded his political network...
Mentioning Landel Shakespeare yesterday "really gave me a boost of confidence that he's serious. He's met many people and still remembers my child," said Delvoland Shakespeare, 29, who is training for the Christian ministry and also works as a janitor...
...loyal to his boss--Harold Ickes long ago earned his post as dog robber to the New Deal. He is the Scout who goes ahead, prowling the unexplored bushes of public opinion. He is the Whipping Boy who takes the blame whenever anything goes wrong. He is the Janitor who sweeps up the floor (usually using some victim as the broom). He is the Public Executioner, the Court Poisoner and the Bouncer. In short, if there is on the docket a hard, nasty, grinding job, Ickes gets the assignment." --Sept...
Campos, the University of Texas sophomore, was drawn to Union Summer by a desire to help those less privileged. The daughter of an El Paso, Texas, janitor, Campos had felt the power of a union up close: before the hospital where her mother cleans was unionized in 1989, "she had to work two jobs, and we couldn't afford health insurance," Campos says. She moved to the U.S. when she was seven and talks of class struggle as if the phrase had never gone out of style. "Around campus, I see so many Mexicans cleaning dorms," she says...
Workers from the Whiting dairy hand-delivered milk to the new housing for married veterans. The janitor of Claverly Hall wore a jaunty bowler...