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Others closed in. Did Bridges want to belong to "a democratic organization such as C.I.O.?" shouted the maritime union's Joe Curran. "Then, by God, carry out its national policies and programs." Roared Mike Quill at Bridges and the other left-wing leaders: "Pinks, punks and parasites...
Protective Coloration. In San Antonio, harassed Postmaster Dan Quill begged that municipal trash cans be painted orange - or almost any color but postbox green...
...MANHATTAN, on the grounds that four garage mechanics had been fired, the Transport Workers' hardheaded Mike Quill cut off transportation for 1,250,000 New York bus riders. Ignoring a no-strike pledge he made only two weeks ago, and blandly passing over the original excuse for the strike, Quill threatened to keep the boys out until he got them an extra 21? an hour, a 40-hour week and a whole string of pension and welfare concessions...
Tired Mayor William O'Dwyer, who had just said that he would seek reelection, flew back from a Mexican holiday to see what it would take to quiet Mike Quill...
...Fortaleza, the government palace which the 16th Century Spaniards intended to be a fort. "La Fortaleza," he says, "is beautiful, but it's not really a place to live or work in. It's for an old Spanish governor, writing a letter to the king-with a quill pen." He prefers Jajome, the Governor's summer residence in the hills north of Ponce, or his own rented ($52 a month) cottage at Sabana liana, twelve miles outside San Juan...