Word: longshoreman
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...organization's "media events" have matched its rhetoric in zaniness and lack of inhibition. The slogan "No Hippo Critters" adorned the walls of San Francisco's Longshoreman's Hall in October 1974, when the first annual Hookers' Ball attracted nationwide notice. Frisco and the rest of the West mustered its most decadent and bizarre characters for the frivolous extravaganza which was marked by fantastic costumes and coyote yells and attended by transvestities, pimps, working women and the curious press. Hot-pink pasties, g-strings, sequins and nudity adorned the raucous proceedings--but the drag queens reportedly outdid the rest, leading...
Died. Achille van Acker, 77, Socialist Premier of Belgium in 1945-46 and 1954-58; in Bruges. Van Acker became a longshoreman, union leader and Socialist parliamentarian, fled Brussels to join the Belgian Maquis after the Nazi invasion in 1940. Named Minister of Labor in the coalition government that followed liberation, "Smiling Achille" persuaded striking coal miners to return to work, and was credited with the labor peace that speeded Belgian recovery. As Premier, he resisted the return of Belgium's collaborationist King Leopold in 1945 and formed an economic union with The Netherlands and Luxembourg that later became...
...said his first tasks will be to find more business for the Port of Boston, increase the Massport's borrowing capacity, improve the Port Authority's relationship with neighboring Logan Airport communities and stabilize the longshoreman problem...
...wild-eyed oriental scurries about the group welcoming new arrivals. "Hey man. How are you?" he asks a yellow banded security man; short, Irish, build like a longshoreman. "You sure are looking goods continues the Oriental. But the Irishman is tough not good-looking. Perhaps this is a coded message that completes the gestalt of the scene; barren steppes, flooded with water, disappearing under a tide of people and their carefully-lettered banners ripped by the cold wind...
Many Americans paid tribute to Ford as a man who possesses the common touch, a man of openness and candor. San Francisco Longshoreman-Philosopher Eric Hoffer agreed, but he added a gentle word of caution: "Don't forget that any common man who becomes President lives in enemy country in Washington...