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Through Dark Woods. On a less exalted level, the flight from Communist oppression is well exemplified by Julius Koco, 34, a muscular, sandy-haired machinist in Hamtramck, Mich. Koco was born and reared in the Czechoslovakian town of Nové Zámky, near the Hungarian border, and his earliest memories are of the Communist seizure of power, when "they began to take things away from people." Even when he was in school, "they used to close the school down and everybody would have to go out and dig sugar beets or potatoes. Later, when I had a job, I only made...
...shops. A woman working in construction near Seattle was appalled to climb into the cab of a truck and find its ceiling papered with crotch shots. Sometimes the hazards are more serious. Because many men fear women will take their jobs away, there is much hostility. One woman apprentice machinist in Seattle was told by men workers that it was safe to put her hands into a container of acid. She did not. Others in the construction trades complain that they have been given the silent treatment for months...
Aboard the Belknap, an explosion blew Machinist's Mate Michael F. Cartolano Jr., 20, through a hatch into a bulkhead. He staggered on deck and looked up in horror. "The Kennedy was sitting right on top of us with her deck on fire," he recalls. "There it was - a nightmare...
...member United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (U.E.), who spent most of the 1950s under fire for suspected Communist sympathies; following a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Born in Soroca, Rumania, Matles arrived in the U.S. in 1929 and went to work as a machinist. When John L. Lewis set up the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1935, Matles practically singlehanded converted his AFL-affiliated colleagues in the International Association of Machinists into a new union, which he called the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. Under that umbrella name, it became...
...Biscuit Owner Jim Mooney, a machinist from nearby Torrance, transports him and the 30 other terrapins he races in water-filled ice chests in the back of his Dodge "turtle van." Says Mooney: "It shows a lot of class if you can keep a turtle healthy and running for five or six years." Main threat to the turtles' health: the customers at Brennan's. Fueled up on "jelly beans," a deadly concoction of anisette and blackberry brandy, they pose a mortal threat to the hardtop thoroughbreds plodding underfoot...