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...works as a cleaner, to find her co-workers slack-jawed with incredulity. They were staring at a fresh crop of campaign posters plastered on the station's walls. They portrayed her husband, Wolfgang, a steelworker and union shop steward at ThyssenKrupp Stahl, in his silver blast-furnace smock and hard hat. The real surprise was not the larger-than-life apparition of Herr Teusch and his frayed walrus moustache, but the poster's message: an endorsement from this lifelong Social Democrat of the opposition Christian Democratic Union (cdu). "Did you see the poster? How can anyone who works...
DIED. GARRARD SMOCK JR., 86, third-generation Pullman porter who gained a measure of unexpected fame as one of the chief subjects of the book Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class, about the black men who, in the Golden Age of train travel, found low-paying but long-term work--and deep respect in the black community--catering to the whims of passengers in Pullman sleeping cars; in Los Angeles. Among the riders for whom Smock shined shoes, cooked and ran errands were President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor...
Katie Larson is little too young to get it. Her dad Brian has just slipped a blue-and-white-striped shepherd smock over her head. "Look at you," he says. "It's perfect." But Katie, 2, doesn't think so. Two years ago she was Baby Jesus, and that costume was much more comfortable. She begins to cry. "Do you want to hold this cute little baby sheep?" Brian asks, waving a stuffed toy before his daughter's beet-red face. Still no sale...
...With her violet, oversized glasses, baggy purple smock and toothy smile, Chieko Saito could be your grandmother. But she is a bit different from the average septuagenarian. When Saito was in her mid-30s, she decided to get into the nude-dancing business, recalling, "I liked dancing, and as for the nude part, I didn't care." At first, she danced in a friend's theater after the movies played. Then, in 1962, she bought her own strip club; less than a decade later, she owned more than 20 theaters across Japan. Along the way, Saito's money...
...voice bellows not from some bearded firebrand but from Sumbal, a five-year-old girl in a bubble-gum-pink smock. After her speech, delivered with a child's pure-spun rage, Sumbal encounters TIME's correspondent, an American citizen. Trembling, she hides behind her teacher's legs and tries to bury her face in the baggy folds of his salwar kameez. This is her worst nightmare: after memorizing her diatribe against blood-thirsty Americans, one of them has come stalking up the ravines after...