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...demonstrators had been arrested after an all-night sit-in at the Medical Center led by the Stanford Black Students Union and the Black United Front. Stanford administrators summoned police to evict a group of 50 demonstrators - who were demanding that Sam Bridges, a black janitor at the hospital, be rehired - from a hallway where they had spent the night...
well boss i was crushed by the news the n y daily news to be exact rolled up and wielded by a janitor but my soul came back again as a roach i must be doing something right
...final match with a broken thumb. Returning home penniless and with a heavy cast on his hand, he was unable to work for six months and had to live off his wife's $60-a-week salary as a factory worker. In desperation, he took a job as a janitor in the aptly named Bright Hope Baptist Church of North Philadelphia. The pastor, it happened, had some wealthy acquaintances. Through his intercession, a syndicate called Cloverlay Inc., headed by F. Bruce Baldwin, a Horn & Hardart executive, was set up to finance Joe's professional boxing career...
...people, though, were really taken with Paul's father, Tom Couming. He was pretty cool. A "70-year-old janitor from the Columbia Point housing project" who calls the trial of his son "part of the continuing harassment of dissenters against the war" has got potential-he could be the next Charlie McNeil. Especially if he were fired from his job, or something...
Paul Couming had everything to lose. Long before it was popular, he was a conscientious objector. Long before it was cool, he, whose family scraped along on a janitor's salary, joined VISTA after getting out of Boston Tech. He had his C.O., and a nice cushy alternative service in Newton-Wellesley Hospital, but he felt he was needed at Boston City, so he transferred. He was safe-but he responded to calls for more anti-draft action by turning in his cards. Where were all those people who call for revolution? Perhaps Che really is right...