Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dining hall workers, who make up approximately 15 per cent of Local 26, currently receive six dollars in pension receipts for every year of employment. The union will demand an increase of three dollars or more per year, Fred Walden, chief shop steward for Harvard Dining Halls, said yesterday...
Shaffer added the Local has in the past accepted contracts that were longer than one year of built-in across-the-board increases after the first year. He said the same will hold for this year's negotiations...
...very placid and social life in the town is about the same. My town sports Playland, an amusement park famous county-wide, but in spring all anyone can do is stare at the deserted rides. There are two bars in town, but I have grown weary of watching the local football players and their fawning cheerleaders. Visiting the old high school doesn't tempt me either. Most of the teachers I Knew are gone, and all the people are too young. Only the speckled floors, bisected by a strip of silver, are the same. The lunchroom now has round tables...
Falmouth follows Mashpee. The most distinguishing feature in the town is Woods Hole, Falmouth's southernmost village and the home of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the Marine Biological Laboratories. The scientific community has given Woods Hole the atmosphere of a small college town. Poetry readings, local theater and folk dancing are common. The Fishmonger's Cafe or the Market Bookshop in Falmouth Center are the best places to learn what is to be done...
...bulk of my father's large family still lives in one very clannish neighborhood in Brooklyn. They inhabit a world where no one ever moves away, women get married at 18 or 19, and everyone knows everyone else and what they're doing. Visiting my grandmother, one of the local matriarchs, is always an occasion Despite our protest that we have eaten, overeaten, or can feel our aortas congealing into hockey pucks a la S. J. Perelman, she always has more food ready than any undernourished victim of Harvard cooking could eat in weeks. And because my grandmother...