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Workers, intellectuals and clergymen leaped to Ben Sadok's defense. Jean-Pierre Mayer, a member of the Young Catholic Worker movement, who had worked beside him as a plumber in Strasbourg, testified for the accused. He cried: "Ben Sadok, you are my friend, you are my brother, as we are all sons of the same God. Ali Chekkal would understand your gesture. No more bayonets between us." Witness Mayer departed, weeping...
...with 'scholarship.' " Nor is the emerging Ph.D. "what we mean by an educated man, a man who combines wide-ranging learning with an attitude of simplicity and vividness, and who commingles good taste with an excited curiosity. Rather, he likely has become a sort of expert plumber in the card catalogues . . . and neither as teacher nor scholar will he throw off this inhibiting heritage...
...Teamster economic power would bluff the A.F.L.-C.I.O. into backing down, Hoffa & Co. planned to ask the A.F.L-C.I.O. Executive Council for a year's probation. There was not a chance. For sitting at the head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. was 63-year-old George Meany, the stocky, onetime plumber's helper with a mind and heart as tough as cast-iron pipe. To Meany-and the executive council-the issue was clear: the Teamsters were dirty, they had fair warning, there was no backing down...
Rather, he likely has become a sort of expert plumber in the card cata- logues or other areas and neither as teacher nor scholar will he throw off this inhibiting heritage. As a teacher, he may well lack that vivid excitement before fact or expression which is the basis of real communication. As a scholar, he may lack the means which a rigorous training in disciplines and techniques ought to have given him. If he knows that he does not possess the necessary tools with which a piece of work ought to be tackled, and that his training in form...
...George riding heroically against the dragons that infest the nation's drain traps and fuse boxes. In commuter cars, at cocktail parties and women's clubs, he is the center of a game of "Can you top this?"-an endless recital of domestic triumphs and defeats. The plumber who forgets his tools is legendary; now, says one pained Washington housewife with murder on her mind, "he just rides around in that white Thunderbird and never even comes." The counterplay comes from the housewife who has discovered a reliable Mr. Fixit, a possession as chic today as the little...