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Similarly, about a year ago, Johnny abruptly canned his manager of eight years, Al Bruno. The story is that the intricate sound and tape effects that go with Carson's cabaret act got snarled by a technician three shows running during an engagement at Miami's Eden Roc. Johnny called up New York, says a friend, actually sobbing. "They didn't laugh," he said. Carson blamed Bruno and bought out his contract...
Most important, they agreed not to let a drop of their urine go to waste for three weeks, though this meant having a technician follow them around in offduty hours. Dr. Bourne wanted these round-the-clock specimens because the chemicals in them would reveal what levels the stress hormones had reached each day. Despite some unavoidable misses, he got 76 day-and-night samples from the group. He froze part of each and sent the specimens by air to Washington for analysis...
...flying medics were a special breed, exposed to enemy fire for only an hour or two at a stretch and not every day at that, Dr. Bourne wanted to study the reactions of ground forces in constant danger and therefore under continuing stress. To do this, he and Technician William M. Coli joined a Green Beret detachment of two officers and ten enlisted men stationed at Due Co, southwest of Pleiku and only a few miles from the Ho Chi Minh trail. The Green Berets had good reason to be edgy. The study began during the dark of the moon...
...professional. He has lost that flush of innocence, or amateurism, which makes one think that by dint of honest toil and a boundless faith in human perfectability one can change any individual; on the other hand, he is working at too low a level to have acquired the technician's confidence in his mastery of tools for shaping institutions...
...discovered very early that technicians are considered about as important as nurses' aides and secretaries. The salaries are at the poverty level. Yet registered technicians with a B.S. degree take many courses taught in medical school, including pathology, immunology, comparative anatomy, pathogenic bacteriology and at least 25 to 35 college hours each of chemistry, zoology and bacteriology. Often a good technician knows more about specific diseases than the doctor for whom the tests are run. The smart technicians will go on to medical school rather than work for low pay and with low selfesteem...