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Except the Crimson didn't make it. I had to file a story, though, so I headed over to Levien where this old guy--I think he was the janitor--let me in. I headed for the press box phone to do some in-depth reporting...

Author: By John Donley, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cagers' Upset Bid Fails to Materialize | 2/11/1978 | See Source »

...first to see Cosmos 954's actual re-entry was Marie Ruman, night janitor in an office building in Yellowknife (pop. 10,000), a gold-mining town on Great Slave Lake, some 1,000 miles north of the Montana border. She saw what "looked like a jet on fire. There were dozens of little pieces following the main body, all burning and each with its little tail of fire just like the big piece." At a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment in Hay River, 125 miles south of Yellowknife, Corporal Phil Pitts saw a "bright white and incandescent" glowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cosmos 954: An Ugly Death | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...protégés, Yu Hui-yung, a composer who had been Minister of Culture, had succeeded where Chuang had failed. Yu reportedly committed suicide by gulping large amounts of poisonous detergent in a latrine in the Culture Ministry, where he had been forced to work as a janitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Death Wish | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...plan to convert Dunster's basement janitor's room into the proposed sauna area--already down there are two showers and bathroom facilities." James A. Merolla '78, an organizer of the project, said Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Sauna Possible | 10/22/1977 | See Source »

...selfesteem, a point of identification with the system, and a second social environment, which aids in diffusing the accumulated tensions of day-to-day life. Says Stanford University Historian Clay Carson, a black: "Permanency of jobs, stability in an economic situation, is important. Even if someone is only a janitor, his job still means stability." On the basis of studies, he adds: "Typically, those who can get established with a job in an urban environment can pass this stability on to their kids. Those who can't are likely to pass on more than just poverty. They also transmit poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The American Underclass | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

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