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...completely shocked." Gregory P Plumber, a freshman in "Hext's" computer class at Shippensburg, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pennsylvania Prof. 'John Doe' Causes Stir at Two Campuses | 3/25/1983 | See Source »

...Sometimes in class, people would ask him questions, and he wouldn't really answer them Sometimes it seemed that he didn't know a lot about some things." Plumber added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pennsylvania Prof. 'John Doe' Causes Stir at Two Campuses | 3/25/1983 | See Source »

...wife Mary, whom he married in 1956, is the daughter of an Irish Catholic plumber. She was a receptionist at a Ford sales office in Chester, Pa., when the couple met at a Ford conference in Philadelphia in 1948. They have two daughters, Lia, 18, a student at a Michigan college, and Kathi, 23, a recent Middlebury (Vt.) College graduate who is a Washington public relations account executive. lacocca and his daughters are close; he usually stays in Kathi's guest bedroom during his frequent trips to the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iacocca's Tightrope Act | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...Mexican labor leaders, 40% of the labor force is underemployed, meaning a hand-to-mouth existence of marginal, unskilled, part-time work. In the grimy urban jungle of Netzahualcóyotl, a onetime Mexico City slum that has now become a full-scale city of nearly 3 million, Plumber José Vásquez is one of many who contemplate an increasingly desperate future. Says he: "Life is very hard now. It will get worse. I will defend myself as best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico We Are in an Emergency | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

...Howard Hunt, 63, White House leak-plugging plumber who helped plan burglary and bugging of Democratic National Committee headquarters at Watergate complex. Pleaded guilty. Served 33 months in prison. Released in February 1977. Has cleared his debts (including $387,000 in legal fees), partly by writing novels. Of 56 books he has written, his autobiography, Undercover, "did the least well," he says. Hunt's first wife died in 1972 plane crash. He has remarried. Last year he won $650,000 libel suit against right-wing Liberty Lobby, which had falsely linked him to John Kennedy's assassination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aftermath of a Burglary | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

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