Word: machinist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bell Laboratories has long been proud of its thief-resistant pay telephone, boasting that the only way to break into it was to haul the whole contraption away and work on it with sledgehammers or explosives. According to the FBI, John Clark, 49, a former Ohio machinist who wears a shoulder-length ponytail and cowboy clothes, discovered otherwise. He is the only person known to have devised a tool that can pick pay-phone locks. It afforded him a comfortable, if itinerant, living. The FBI estimates that Clark, who sometimes used the alias Billy Bell, may have stolen as much...
...stand does not deter Rogers, the son of a machinist and assembly-line worker. Designing strategy in his Manhattan office, often dressed in a T shirt and jeans, he hardly looks imposing. But he can marshal large forces as effectively as many a general. Rogers has sent carloads of United Paperworkers -- "caravans" he calls them -- to gather support at the plants and union halls of other industries. The response has been encouraging: in April more than 8,500 sympathizers from unions around the U.S. converged for a rally at the Jay mill, roughly doubling the town's population...
...more homeless citizens. To explore their plight, Time Correspondent Jon D. Hull took up residence on the streets of Philadelphia. Some of the people he met, like a former construction worker named George, are still struggling to find a way up. Others, like a former machinist named Gary, seem hopelessly caught in the undertow. Many once led normal lives, with jobs and families and homes...
ROBERT CAMPEAU. In Ottawa it is said that Campeau owns the skyline. He made his first real estate investment in 1942 as a 19-year-old machinist. Campeau built a house, sold it for a 50% profit and started another. Within ten years he was building apartments and office towers, and now owns Canadian real estate worth $1 billion. Allied rejected his first offer of $58 a share last August, when the stock was trading at 48. But Campeau eventually won Allied's consent with an offer of $69 a share, helped by a $1.8 billion loan from First Boston...
...home for him to return to. The war was half- forgotten for the Americans in 1955, but for one of the former prisoners, Hans Richter, 60, that was the year he fled East Germany with 60 pfennigs in his pocket. He found a job near Wiesbaden as a machinist and three months later sent for his wife Elisabeth...