Word: machinists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many homemade planes, however, never leave the ground. The EAA estimates that only one out of every ten who start a plane ever finishes it. Said Roger Rourke, a machinist who spent nine years building his brightly painted, red and yellow Starduster: "It took six years to build it, 15 seconds to crash it, and three more years to rebuild it." Rourke's perseverance paid off: last week he won the EAA'S grand champion Custom Built Award...
...have responded with anger and disruptiveness. Says Assistant School Superintendent Elmer Frahm, 45: "We see many more students smoking, drinking, using drugs, and there's a lot more vandalism too." The Reserve Mining case has been hanging over Silver Bay for eight years. Says Mayor Melvin Koepke, a machinist at Reserve's $350 million lakeside plant: "It's like living in limbo." Understandably, most residents now postpone major home improvements. Savings deposits in the local bank have almost doubled in two years. Many residents are prepared to leave. Others are not, like Robert Carlson...
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...
...Catholic welfare agency sent the Kocos to New York, and another Slovak offered him a job in Detroit, sifting coal. "We arrived here without a winter coat," says Agnes. "We had nothing. Nothing." After several months of sifting coal, Koco got a job as a machinist, making gears at Massey-Ferguson. Then came a layoff. Koco turned to making boxes. He was a press operator. He worked part time as a school janitor (and studied English). He went back to Massey-Ferguson, was laid off three weeks ago. Now Agnes has found a job there, operating a grinding and shaving...
...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...