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...Sherman Hasbrouck...
...proud history of strike support work at Harvard. When Mike Anderson was still wearing short pants the SYL was mobilizing student support for Local 26. From a defense campaign for Sherman Holcombe, a black union activist victimized by Harvard in 1976 to bringing students out to rally with Local 26 today, we actively take a side with campus workers against the racist, union-busting Harvard administration...
...correspondent to whom Adams wrote most frequently (908 letters over the course of nearly 40 years) was the beautiful Elizabeth Sherman Cameron. They met in 1881, when he was 43 and she 24. They were both married, she to a stodgy Senator twice her age. Adams had fled to the South Seas partly to escape his increasing need for her, but he ended his voyage by meeting her in Paris. This time she was the one who fled, back to Washington, pursued by an eloquently inarticulate letter. "I am not old enough to be a tame...
...retire 22 ships this year starkly illustrates the dilemma. It placed the ships in mothballs in order to comply with a congressional order that it trim the sails of its 1983 spending. But the Navy did not want to cut planned procurement of new ships. Of the 13 Forrest Sherman-class escort destroyers that were retired, twelve had been extensively overhauled within the past two years. Of the four Decatur-class guided-missile destroyers retired, three had been recently overhauled. Even some Navy fleet commanders were dismayed by the retirement of five landing-dock ships (four of which had recently...
Love forever, Sherman - By Richard Corliss. Reported by Denise Worrell/Los Angeles