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This personal interest by the boss has lifted U.A.L.'s morale despite the layoffs. Since Carlson took over, an employee-organized sales effort has brought in some $5,000,000 of revenue. In Chicago, a United janitor organized a charter flight to Los Angeles for his bowling group. A San Jose mechanic babysat for a neighbor flying on United to Hawaii...
...Secretary James Hodgson, the Administration's belated emissary, also stopped by to pay his respects. He was one of the few White House men who managed to get the last word in during a slanging match with onetime Journeyman Plumber Meany (see box, page 10). After being labeled a "janitor" by Meany, Hodgson allowed as how "even a janitor can sometimes show a plumber where the leak...
...average working man. That struck a raw nerve, for the aged Meany, 77, feels his leadership threatened by younger union Turks. He sneered: "I don't pay too much attention to the Secretary. If you have a problem with the landlord, you don't discuss it with the janitor...
Anyone who has read Irvin Faust's short stories and novels knows how this former high school guidance counselor tenderizes human defect and deficiency. Faust's best characters, the Puerto Rican janitor in Roar Lion Roar, the questing professor in The Steagle, the transistor-radio addict in Philco Baby, are consumed by a world of mass-produced trivia and popular mythology...
...many college presidents are like Charles G. Hurst Jr.-yet. He is a high school dropout who was a husband and father at 15. He has been a boxer, ditch digger, janitor, foundry hand and crane operator, and has served four months and 14 days in a North Carolina jail for being caught with bootleg liquor. Now 43, he delivers evangelistic speeches to his student body, garbed in dashikis, while from a gold chain around his neck hangs a carved African-style tiki in the form of a clenched fist...