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...avoids describing the government as "doing a lot of good things," a sentiment the campaign would just as soon have him ditch. "Stayed on message," Dole says afterward, before repeating a pet peeve: "Every time I do that reconnect-the-government-to-values stuff, I feel like a plumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILL THE REAL BOB DOLE PLEASE STAND UP? | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

...father was a plumber, his mother an usher in a Moscow theater. He was an aircraft-design engineer in 1944, when Stalin ordered Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov to start recruiting technicians rather than intellectuals and independent thinkers to staff the U.S.S.R.'s postwar diplomatic corps. From such implausible roots, Anatoly Dobrynin rose to become ambassador to the U.S. for five Soviet leaders and interlocutor for six U.S. Presidents--Kennedy to Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: COLD WAR CONFIDENTIAL | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

Shawn Nelson, an unemployed plumber and Army veteran, stole a National Guard tank and steamrolled down San Diego streets, plowing over cars and utility poles. Police shot and killed him after he refused to surrender and instead tried to roll the tank off a concrete freeway divider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: MAY 14-20 | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

...Diego Police are at a loss to explain why a 34-year-old plumber stole a 63-ton tank from a local armory Wednesday, then rampaged through several neighborhoods, flattening fire hydrants and crushing dozens of cars before he was shot to death by police. No one else was injured. "The guy was just going crazy," said one witness . "He was mowing cars over." Police said the driver, Shawn Nelson, had served in the military and apparently knew how to maneuver the vehicle. They said they shot him as he was trying to spin it round and head into traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TANK THIEF RUNS AMOK | 5/18/1995 | See Source »

According to Bob McCurtain, the plumber who was hired by Currier House to repair the problem, a new hot water heater was supposed to have arrived at the dorm by Friday...

Author: By Raphael B. Folsom, | Title: Currier Residents Lose Hot Water for Two Days | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

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