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...success story began two years ago with the British publication of A Year in Provence. The hardback edition at first received a mild, pleasant response, but never underestimate favorable word of mouth. In paperback the book was No. 1 on the charts for 60 weeks, and Mayle's plumber, mason and the rest of the artisans became popular heroes. In the U.S. the paperback has just appeared, and the publisher is rushing extra printings...
...rods out of Yakima, Wash., to go to Columbia Law School in 1922. Twenty-five years ago, Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey palmed his way around the stately chambers in the righteous sheen of polyester. And a labor leader like George Meany still had the hands of a plumber. If there was anybody at the Harriman reception who had done physical labor in the past 10 years, or now makes less than six figures, he was parking the Mercedes for the guests...
...hope there's a place for them in the work field," adds Emerson, who is currently an unemployed plumber, having been laid off at the super collider construction site in Texas...
...explains how it works. When instructed to blockade a street, it is O.K. to steal public vans and buses but not private cars, because those, he says, "could belong to one of your own." The summer he turned ten, Chuckie came upon three teenagers in ski masks hijacking a plumber's van. He impulsively flung himself into the back of the truck; after the hijackers crashed the van and set it on fire, Chuckie helped pour gasoline on the wreck to make it burn faster. He was operating in strict accordance with I.R.A. guidelines, but his smile betrays his outrageous...
...contrast, the rich Texan's plumber, self-employed and earning $30,000, was in about the 40% marginal tax bracket. Of the next $1,000 he earned, $400 went to the government -- $100 or so to Social Security, $300 to income tax. Today he's in the 43% bracket...