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...boosts will place many once lowly paid Japanese workers on a par with their European counterparts. The typical steel worker's pay (not including fringe benefits) rose from the 1973 level of $493 a month to $650. Auto workers' incomes spurted from $480 to $610, while cotton-mill employees, historically the nation's most poorly paid industrial workers, got their paychecks fattened...
...control, with those many more who knew they were not. The excellence of the interviews is hard to convey in brief, since it is a stream-of-consciousness flow that gives them their quality. But the interview with Mike Lefevre, a 37-year-old worker in an Illinois steel mill, is a good example...
...wasn't the usual run of the mill Crimson victory either. A few new men got into the act. Most notably, Leon Sharpe, often a second fiddler to Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace's antics, stole first place in the triple jump, with his 47 ft. 11 1/2 in., and also notched a second place in the long jump...
Haggard ended up his stay in San Quentin as a model prisoner. He worked hard in the prison textile mill. "When I got out, they gave me $15 and a bus ticket home." Once back in Bakersfield, Merle dug ditches, and he sang...
...group of tenants and students escorted Ebert on a "walking tour" of the neighborhood, and he said he agreed in principle with the tenants' demands for immediate repair of safety hazards and a rent cut-back. On January 18, over 40 students and faculty staged a "mill-in" in Ebert's vacant office to protest his failure to "act positively" on the demands. The next day, Ebert announced his refusal to intervene with the Corporation on behalf of the tenants...