Word: longshoreman
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Explo '71. Despite this endemic hostility, few Ulster Catholics would readily give up the British welfare-state benefits available in Northern Ireland for life in the poorer Republic of Ireland. "Why don't I go down South?" asked a Belfast longshoreman. "That's just what the Prods want us to do. Well, it's our country too." But with distrust turning more and more into open hostility and with minor street incidents turning into major riots, the prospect of civil war is becoming ever more likely...
...score." The voice was still harsh and raspy, but Eric Hoffer's mood was unusually mild as he announced that he was giving up his weekly newspaper column, "Reflections," which runs in 400 papers, earning him about $5,000 a week. "I've got no solutions," the longshoreman-philosopher said. "This country needs solutions. When I write, I'm a passionate person, but I can't do it in a column. I slash too much." And Hoffer's replacement? Aaron Wildavsky, Dean of the graduate school of public affairs at the University of California...
...potential effect of the workers on the war is just beginning to suggest itself. The wildcat refusal of the San Francisco Longshoreman's local to load American freighters bound for Vietnam last year caused a supply shortage that was felt by the war-planners. During the G. E. strike, a truly ominous one in many ways for the producers of war related goods. the manager of G. E.'s Schenectady, N. Y. plant brought a Defense Department representative to the picket lines to talk to the workers. Hearing that the strike was directly handicapping the war effort, that...
...front groups, however, commissions consider extremism in any form a vice. Better that the commissioner have no clear party label and no pronounced political views. Moderate liberals like John W. Gardner are frequently sought for service on commissions, even if room is occasionally found for a moderate eccentric like Longshoreman-Philosopher Eric Hoffer...
...spends at least one hour each day in the basement "poking around." She explains, "It's a challenge to see how well you know your merchandise, your materials, your designers. You have to leave your courtesy at home and get there and mix it up like a longshoreman. But the joy of finding a really good bargain is worth it." One typical joyful day during last week's pre-Christmas crush...