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When Staff Sergeant Louis Loman, 33, joined the Air Force in 1971, he did so mainly for one reason: job security. He had just been laid off as a mechanic at a paper mill in Hamilton, Ohio, and he never wanted to face such hard times again. Now he is undecided about signing up for another tour of duty in 1981. "I like my job," says Loman, a B-52 air craft mechanic. "I don't want to get out. But I've got to go where the money is to make a living for my family...
...School of Public Health also went international by appointing Dr. John Cairns--a prominent molecular biologist and director of the Mill Hill Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, England--to be a professor of Microbiology...
...area's Roman Catholic churches have been another rallying point for aid. In the basement of St. Anthony's Church in Union City a banner proclaims WELCOME BROTHERS. Some 100 people mill around waiting for public health nurses to take their blood to screen cases of TB and VD. Many are dazed by lack of sleep. One man, who was bitten on the back by a Cuban policeman, has a fever from the festering wound. But for all of them, St. Anthony's is just a way station. "We hope to process 20 a day," says Father...
Muskie is a mixture of Polish combativeness and Yankee taciturnity. The second of six children of an immigrant Polish tailor who settled in Maine, he became a fervent debater in high school in the mill town of Rumford. He went on to graduate from Maine's Bates College and Cornell University Law School. Elected to the Maine house of representatives in 1946, he ran for Governor in 1954 and scored a startling upset in a traditionally Republican state. He got along so well with his Republican-controlled legislature that he was even invited to join the G.O.P., an honor...
...fact, neither the Knapps nor the other characters who mill through the pages of the novel have an idea of what a big deal...