Word: milwaukeean
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...intense bidding war of recruiting, Pike managed to lure four experienced high school players to Cambridge. Golden Bears Brian Johnson (Santa Barbara), goalie Brian Graham (Los Angeles), and Winthrop Pescasolidos (Exeter), along with Milwaukeean John David lead the Yardling contingent...
...attitude is widely and fervently shared in this almost completely blue collar city ten miles south of Milwaukee. The typical South Milwaukeean wants nothing so much as to be left alone to enjoy his material comforts. He defines the good life as owning his own home, two cars, a small boat and a color television set and enjoying the ultimate privilege of sending his children to college. Barring a serious economic slump, most families in South Milwaukee expect to reach these goals, though the effort to do so means that well over half of the wives must hold full-time...
After the Fireworks. "The Problem now," says the Art Institute's director, Edward H. Dwight, 38, "is to keep them coming." Director D wight can apparently count on the drawing power of the new building's architecture. "It just insists that you wander in," said one Milwaukeean. When the city staged a fireworks celebration for its World Series-winning Braves last month in front of the Memorial Center, some 7,100 celebrators decided to take in the art show. Many of them had never been in an art gallery...
...calling the repair-shop owner, threatening to come down and "punch the first person I see in the nose." Others try the food gambit, laying on sandwiches, beer or liquor for the repairman. And when all else fails, a wife can call the repairman's wife. Says one Milwaukeean: "I asked her how she'd like to keep house without any kitchen water: Did she have some influence on her husband? Did she? Boy, he was out the next day and fixed things fast...
...parking sign like a rifle and marched off. Car horns brayed; a band came out of a restaurant, and somebody organized a snake dance. Before the celebration broke up at 3:45 a.m., the police had arrested seven men-three for drunkenness, four for disorderly conduct. "Any Milwaukeean ought to be forgiven, because last night was a night to remember," said Judge Robert Hansen next day. "Case dismissed...