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...four other slots, the old bosses have not been officially replaced or the men who succeeded them?including Colombo?were not considered their equals. A measure of the scorn in which Colombo was held is revealed in the wiretap transcripts of a conversation between New Jersey Boss "Sam the Plumber" DeCavalcante and his underboss, Frank Majuri...
...those on welfare. He argued that there is as much dignity in scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans "as there is in any other work to be done in this country, including my own." Equally to the point was former HEW Secretary John Gardner's comment that "an excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher." Disconcerting though it may be to parents who have heavily invested in their children's educations, many of this year's graduates who are heading for alternative vocations may be on the right track...
Effler's team alone has played plumber to more than 5,000 diseased hearts since 1962, and doctors attending last week's meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery in Atlanta report that revascularization is being performed at an increasing number of hospitals. Still, doctors are reaching only a small fraction of their potential patients. Nearly 250,000 Americans a year, or the majority of newly identified atherosclerosis victims under 65, could benefit from reconstructive heart surgery. But because trained personnel and adequate facilities are in short supply, doctors are performing only 25,000 operations a year...
Since World War II, she said, "the number of well-educated, motivated women has dropped substantially. We've been setting up a way of life where women are suburban scullery maids, wait-ing for the plumber and living totally isolated...
...often see them?rather simplistically?as supporters of racism and repression. Black leaders condemn many unions for systematically excluding Negroes. Many other Americans think of labor as fat, lazy and arrogant, a condition exemplified in their minds by the $10-an-hour auto mechanic, the $15-an-hour plumber and the $18,000-a-year carpenter...