Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raff dropped out of school for good. A young man who had never dated a girl, he found a job polishing and arranging fruit in a Seattle supermarket and took some satisfaction in it. But his failure in school, tugging remorselessly at his conscience, drove him to the Seattle public library. For hours on end, unable to fathom the printed mysteries of its stacks, he pored over the illustrations. In a way that he still does not understand, pictures of airplanes and weapons of war fascinated him. And his thoughts slowly turned to the other culture of modern society where...
...column, Buchwald squelched rumors that Vice President Agnew was planning to dump Richard Nixon in 1972. "A spokesman for the Vice President," he wrote, "told me that Mr. Agnew was very satisfied with the job his President was doing and that he even intended to give him more responsibilities." In another, Buchwald declaimed against the "small elite group of men, no more than a dozen," who chose "to show the violence of the Purdue-Ohio State football game rather than the peaceful scenes on the sidelines. Why were their cameras constantly aimed at the confrontation between the two teams instead...
...everywhere. With all appliances roaring, a modern kitchen can generate louder noise than a factory; both exceed the volume that most experts believe will impair hearing. In some offices, the constant staccato of typewriters and calculators is so nerve-racking that employees quit after a short time on the job. (New York's First National City Bank neatly resolved that problem by hiring deaf clerical help in its check-processing department.) City streets, already filled with roaring trucks and buses, are made intolerable by the added din of construction. Even when people sleep, they hear and react to noise...
...barrage of air compressors at a construction site near his Manhattan apartment. He decided to fight. "I found that there was no ordinance limiting the racket between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.," he recalls. "Something had to be done about this acoustic anarchy." He left his job as manager of a Broadway play and by 1966 had established a volunteer organization called Citizens for a Quieter City...
...structure to second-head proportions. Hanging down at strategic intervals (at the temples, around the ears, and down the back of the neck), are separate, curling tendrils of hair. The whole thing may look like the work of a bird who flunked nest building. Yet at $17.50 per neglect-job at Kenneth's Manhattan salon, the elegant lady can-and must-look exactly like a charwoman, or the Char, as the style is also called...