Word: machinist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest pile of all belongs to the legendary Ed Grothus, a former machinist who spent 20 years building "better" bombs ("Be sure to put in the quotes," he says). He has been coming to salvage for 25 years, and his business, the Los Alamos Sales Co., by now claims to offer the "world's most diversified stock of scientific equipment!" Grothus, 60, is the ultimate Los Alamos contradiction. He has collected five warehouses of salvage even as he has become vociferously more antinuclear, propeace and technodoubtful...
...most of his 40 years, John, a Los Angeles machinist, has thought of himself as "a no-good, useless bastard." That is what his father, who beat him with sticks and belts until he was 13, continually called him. And that, for a time, is what John became. He left home after high school, joined the Navy, but failed to mature. "I couldn't deal with adults. I was a loner and avoided people unless I was picking fights with them." He drank too much, married a divorced woman with a three-year-old daughter, and discovered that "emotionally...
...twelve years earlier. The team has now done 36 transplants using cyclosporine, and although Oyer cautions, "It's too early to tell," the preliminary one-year survival rate has risen from 65% in the 1970s to 79%. One of the recent successes at Stanford is Machinist William Sweet, 44, of Rochester, who had a heart transplant in April, along with cyclosporine treatment. Says Sweet: "I feel great. I'm waiting to go home...
...world without getting wet feet. In David Plante's two previous novels of the Francoeur family, these slippery steppingstones have protruded from still, deep waters. The Family, nominated for a National Book Award in 1979, introduced the French-Canadian clan at home in Providence. Papa was a machinist, and his wife, mother of seven sons, a closet hysteric. Son Daniel, then an adolescent, proved to be a precocious observer and subtle dramatist of domestic conflict. In The Country (1981), Daniel was, like Providence-born Plante, a writer living in London. In 159 pages, that novel conveyed a surprising amount...
Complains Don Douglas, who heads the union local at GM's Pontiac, Mich., truck plant: "We shouldn't have to pay for management's blunders." Adds Machinist Larry Self, a 16-year veteran of the union: "I don't think management is hurting as bad as they say. Why don't they go to the shareholders, and tell them they are cutting the dividend rather than take it out of the hide of the worker...