Word: sandhog
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amid these portents, the U.S. laboring man in his great variety-from the sandhog in the bowels of a city to the window washer high above, from the production line worker to the sedentary clerk-has taken a historic step. Now that he has more money than ever, he has turned to the next need: security. In current contract negotiations throughout the U.S., the stress is on job security, early retirement and increased pensions. A contract signed last week between Armour and two meatpacking unions guarantees that workers displaced by machines will continue to earn their previous wages-even...
After six months at Northwestern University, Beatty was bored, quit college and went to New York, where he found even more boredom working as a sandhog on the new tube of the Lincoln Tunnel. Shifting to show business, he played tinkly-tonk cocktail-hour piano in a bin on 58th Street, saved enough money to take a six months' course at Stella Adler's acting school. Scoring minor successes on television (Studio One, Playhouse 90), he eventually won a screen test with Director Joshua Logan, who asked him to demonstrate his kissing talents, using Actress Jane Fonda...