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...long after President Nixon created his special investigations unit in June 1971 to plug "leaks" of classified information, one of the group's members, in a wry acknowledgement of his assignment, tacked up a sign on his door: PLUMBER. Thus the appellation "plumbers" came into being, and eventually such nefarious activities as tapping telephones, burglarizing offices and fabricating State Department cables came to be known as the work of the "plumbers...
...Genuine plumbers are not amused. Last summer a Washington-based local of the 325,000-member United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters fired off an indignant letter to the Washington Star-News complaining that "we cannot accept the discourteous connotation that is derived by the use of our appellation to describe unscrupulous and venal men." Last week a longtime plumber (since 1915) named George Meany declared: "Plumbers are craftsmen, proud of helping build America. The so-called White House 'plumbers' are felons and that's what they ought to be called." A Seattle master plumber named Reginald...
This broad range is what makes Kirstein, 66, something of a miracle worker behind the scenes at the New York City Ballet. He likes to say: "I'm a plumber. I just keep the thing working." His methods are as diverse and mysterious as those of a master politician-which he resembles far more than a plumber. He frequently jets off to foreign cities to negotiate future engagements for the company, and returns brimming with enthusiasm for the music and dance of newly visited lands. Balanchine's Bugaku (1963) was inspired in part by Kirstein's infatuation...
...master pipefitter call the mediocre school teacher next door "Mr." while the teacher calls him by his first name?), but more often the wounds are expressed by workers in ways so fundamental to their thinking that they themselves do not notice. Sennett and Cobb relate the example of a plumber working on a construction job who would not describe his accomplishment in the first person. When he found that the plans for a major plumbing installation were clearly faulty (though they had been made by a man with far greater income and status than he had) he redesigned the system...
...week, it most likely will charge Colson with involvement in the burglary of the office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, the psychiatrist who had treated Daniel Ellsberg. But the federal prosecutors are determined to seek confirmation of their suspicions that Colson (who had arranged for the White House hiring of Plumber E. Howard Hunt and was close to Hunt's partner G. Gordon Liddy) was a power behind the Liddy-Hunt wiretapping...