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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Above and beyond all the other recruits there is Hermie Nutter. Hermie more or less came with the mortgage. On a now rusted water tank, next to patriotic graffiti of World War II (BUY WAR BONDS, REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR). Hermie scratched his name and the date when he first started to work at Brown's Mill - 1939. Over the years he did just about everything, from repairing spinning frames to caring for the steam turbines. Even after the mill, in its last metamorphosis as a leather tannery, closed down five years ago, Hermie stayed on as maintenance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: A Crank for All Seasons | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...just so many things for a creative crank and entrepreneur to do! He has to get cracking, for instance, on marketing his Katahdin Hiker, made from peeled alder, which he pays industrious Dover-Foxcroft youngsters 20? a staff for reaping. MacArthur drills a hole for a compass, brands the name on the side and plans to sell each walking stick for $1.95, with a suggested retail price of $3.99. The alternative-vehicle regatta, now in its fifth year, is never far from its sponsor's thoughts. Every June, at MacArthur's urging, riders on two, three or four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: A Crank for All Seasons | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...added that this change in name will not adversely affect the Taiwan economy because it would still have an autonomous government and trade...

Author: By Elliot A. Ohlberg, | Title: Fairbank Says U.S. Should Abrogate Treaty With Taiwan | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

...name of Sanford G. Ross, the current chairman of the Social Security Advisory Council, is also being floated as Champion's replacement as undersecretary...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Champion May Be Named To Head Social Security | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

Call it the Massacre of '78 or the Great Grab Bag of the Century--by any name, the dissolution of the Buffalo Braves and the realignment of the Boston Celtics and the new San Diego franchise has to go on the record books as an incredible piece of wheeling and dealing...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Boston-San Diego-Buffalo Shuffle | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

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