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Abplanalp was born in The Bronx to Swiss immigrant parents. His father was a machinist who instilled in his son a liking for gadgetry and tinkering. Abplanalp studied engineering at Villanova, but dropped out to open his own machine shop. After he returned from World War II to find his shop had fallen $10,000 in debt, he slowly began to work his way out. One day, a customer brought in an aerosol spray can with an expensive but unreliable valve that had leaked. Abplanalp began thinking of ways to solve the problem, and eventually designed a new, less leak...
...What bothers me is that the image of the country is hurt," says Bud Bongard, 46, a machinist. "We don't talk about Watergate much at the shop or at home. I used to read about it every day, but now the press is overdoing it, and I'm back to the sports pages...
...wife Peg came running into the kitchen. She had been asleep, and the noise of the door frightened her. She thought the furnace had exploded. Half-relieved, but not yet over her fear, she was not angry. After all, she had been married to the machinist for ten years. Harris apologized and resolved to block the reapportionment problem from his mind for a few days, and went to sleep...
...reason to let up on the President now. What has Nixon done to deserve it? In their view, his policies have clamped down on wages, boosted unemployment, sent capital fleeing abroad and caused the virtual disappearance of the electronics industry-much to the dismay of the powerful machinists union. Yet, by staying neutral, Meany and his allies in the steelworkers union are helping Nixon get reelected; some of the building trades unions, in fact, are expected to endorse the President. The dissident union chieftains are frankly baffled. They wonder if Meany knows something they do not. "He hasn...
Wald surmised that the reattachment of limbs developed when a machinist whose hand had been cut off asked a surgeon to sew it back on and, told it was impossible, said, "Hey, you read your Little Red Book lately...