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...career based on a broad variety of experience. After his Vermont printer father died and his mother entered a mental institution, Walker found himself on his own at 14. He served aboard the battleship Kentucky in World War I, later finished his schooling while holding down part-time jobs, one as an oil-field roustabout and another as a hat-check boy in a dance hall. After earning undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Southern California, he worked first for the state, mainly investigating the licensing of stock brokers, and later for the Los Angeles County district attorney...
...Washed Shores. Back in 1841, Cook's started out as a temperance evangelist's venture into group travel. An ex-printer named Thomas Cook, busy saving souls on the gin-washed shores of the British Industrial Revolution, chartered a train for 570 followers to attend a temperance convention. The group traveled in open tube cars from Leicester to Loughborough and back for one shilling per head. Soon Cook began organizing group trips for a profit, and his company, Thomas Cook, Excursionist Agent, was firmly launched during Queen Victoria's Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851. To this pioneering...
...Christmas, Crooks has sent the catalogue to the printer, and the early spring is devoted to arranging social activities like theatre, music, and dance. In addition, Crooks must worry about such administrative details as reporting his budget to the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. (The Summer School is the big money-maker in the Arts and Sciences budget, producing $192,000 in profit last year...
...near by. Ted Kennedy, his shirttail flapping, strode back and forth, inspecting medical charts and asking what they meant. Outside on Lucas Street, beneath the fifth-floor window, hundreds of Angelenos gathered for the vigil; crowds were to be with Bobby Kennedy the rest of the week. A local printer rushed out 5,000 orange and black bumper stickers: PRAY FOR BOBBY. His daughter and other girls gave them away to all takers...
...among the Romantics, notably in Rousseau, whose "natural man" was supposed to be superior to artificial government. One of the cries of the French Revolution, along with "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite!", was "Anarchy!" A man who regarded himself as "the most complete expression of the Revolution," a self-educated French printer named Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, became anarchism's most articulate spokesman. With the Revolution ringing in his ears, and using Rousseau's "natural society" for his lamplight, Proudhon wrote in passionate paradoxes. Authority, he said, fosters not order but disorder; laws create injustice; government leads to slavery...