Word: stockboys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Otto (Emilio Estevez), the failed Los Angeles supermarket stockboy, find purpose, if not happiness, as a repossessor of autos on which the owners have failed to make payments...
DIED. Dominic Tampone, 68, vice chairman of Hammacher Schlemmer, the innovative specialty store and oasis of elegant gadgets to the sedulous and casual collector alike; of cancer; in New York City. Beginning as a stockboy at 15, Tampone stayed on for more than 50 years encouraging inventors to bring even the most farfetched ideas to him. Among the once outrageous items his store popularized that have become staples of modern life: the steam iron, the portable radio, the Waring Blendor and the electric razor...
That summer Schatz started out as a Bloomingdale stockboy, got fed up, quit and then went to Washington to canvas for the equal rights amendment with the National Women's Political Caucus. His introduction to activism by way of feminist politicking, coupled with the news of the impending National March for Gays and Lesbians, catalyzed Schatz' political college career. "I decided I would come back to Harvard and organize for the march," he says...