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...Parsons Student Stephanie Dieterich, is titled "the Knockdownable Sensuous Topograph"; a cross between a playpen and a bed, it is easily disassembled and can be made for about $40. A less felicitously named objet, a 4 ft. 10 in.-long coffee table designed by Student Greg Peterson, is called "Plumber's Dream"; a bronzed glass top mounted on plastic piping and sundry elbows and joints, it has a kind of Bauhaus elegance mit wit (it costs $30 to make...
Indeed, bartenders in the West are serving up plenty of Coors these days. Bellying against a bar in Los Angeles, Plumber Wallace Wirtzberger declared: "I could care less about the strike or boycott. I'm going to keep drinking Coors." Paul Newman, a frequent backer of liberal causes, disagrees. Says he: "All the good things about Coors are simply outweighed by the company's violations of people's privacy and rights." Newman now drinks Budweiser...
What's wrong with teachers dealing through unions? I am a plumber, and I work hard but get paid plenty for it. My wife is a teacher who is paid half as much as I but works twice as hard. She brings work home every evening, grades, corrects and evaluates all of her kids, but she earns less than some of the custodians that work in her elementary school...
...tree-lined 1800 block of West Ninth Street in Bensonhurst is a close-knit neighborhood of working-class Italian families. At least 50 people were outside their neatly kept houses when four shots rang out. Plumber Angelo Treglia, 42, fell dead. After police officers arrived, none of the residents would admit to having seen a thing. "What are they waiting for, another murder?" asked Treglia's tearful widow Tilda, as she begged for someone to identify the killer. Finally, after four days of pleading, Detective Edward Zigo convinced five witnesses that allowing the murder to go unsolved might be seen...
...Rhodesians, white or black, have any idea what Smith means by his vague talk of "internal settlements," "broad-based governments," and a "desire" to bring blacks into the decision-making process. Says a white Salisbury plumber who always voted for Smith in the past: "All we have ever had from him are promises, so me and my mates have decided we've had enough. There is no one to replace Smith, so we are not voting. I'm thinking of emigrating...