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...psychiatrists had nothing to do with my so-called "normal" behavior. I did not write anything for distribution in 1965 and 1966, first because I had no time. I worked as a loader for twelve hours a day with no days off. When I came home I had only enough strength to get into bed. Secondly, I thought I would start writing a history of World War II. But experience showed me that cases of repression are increasing all the time, rather than diminishing. The time had not yet come when I could climb into an ivory tower and engage...
...just as another Chicago jury had cleared him of drug charges in 1965, apparently accepting his claim that the police got an addict to hand him some "goofballs" on a street corner. The police, though, are not yet through with Escobedo, who lost his last job as a truck loader because of his troubles. In November, he was arrested for burglary and disorderly conduct, after a policeman found him urinating under a porch near a just-robbed Chicago restaurant. He now faces trial on those charges, forcing yet another jury to ponder the endless case of the police v. Escobedo...
...freight loader in Edge of the City was both laughing boy and leader, with the universal quality that inspires followers, much like the high school student he played in Blackboard Jungle. His trapped, foolish, ambitious, odds-against-him young husband in A Raisin in the Sun was an agonized study in subhysterical frustration. In Lilies of the Field, his smolderings are banked far down beneath the surface of his easygoing life, but he manages to reveal them in a word here, a gesture there...
...Bruce W. Klunder, 26, died when the tread of a front-end loader tractor crushed his chest and neck. The driver did not see him dive in front of the machine...
...funny routine on karate, and he seems to have all the drive and flair he needs, but his taste is still a bit green. He tells about the mating of a steel Superman with a cast iron Superwoman, and he makes noises that suggest a 20-ton, front-end loader scooping up a Caterpillar tractor and heading off into the bush. "You know how they had to deliver the baby?" he asks. "With a blowtorch...