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...everyone involved but the phlegmatic Hinckley, the trauma of deciding his fate-a process that cost as much as $2.5 million*-was a wrenching ordeal. In the end, the awesome responsibility of sorting out the conflicting testimony and bewildering law fell on five men and seven women. A janitor, a cafeteria worker, a garage attendant, all but one black, they were not a jury of Hinckley's peers except in the legal sense. For 24 hours spread over four days they vacillated until, almost as an act of despair, they reached a decision that left them uneasy and bitter...
...visions. As he talks to the director of the physics institute, Jakob realizes that the man "hadn't heard a word. But perhaps he hadn't said anything." The resident assistant professor erases Jakob's equations and Scrawls in a corner of the blackboard, "Prof. Jakob's space." The janitor steals Jakob's equipment. Jakob can only retaliate by writing a note to the director; "The custodian must be fired or he will gain certain tyranny over...
...masterpiece, from that aspect, is James Hampton's Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millenium General Assembly. Hampton (1909-64), a janitor for the General Services Administration in Washington, started his own sect, of which he was the only member. The Throne was his life's work. It occupied him for 15 years, and it was still unfinished, locked in a rented garage, at his death. It was provoked by visions of Moses, the Virgin Mary and Adam. They inspired him to raise a monument, not to a past event but to a future...
Many, perhaps most, of the discouraged turn to welfare. It is a necessity for Bernie Bell, 35, of Peoria, Ill., who has not found work since he was laid off from a Caterpillar Tractor plant in July 1980. He was making $10.57 an hour as a janitor. Last October, about the time his unemployment benefits ran out, Bell started accepting welfare. He also decided to stop looking for jobs until the economy around Peoria improves. Said he: "I've been all over this area and there ain't nothing out there." The decision to accept his unemployment...
Anderson grew up in Batavia, Ill., the son of a janitor. Even little-known Augustana did not want him as a football player: he was a basketball recruit, and wrote a letter asking to play football. Cincinnati drafted him in the third round in 1971, and he was developed into a pro quarterback by none other than Bill Walsh, then the Bengals' offensive coach...