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...first day in the Marines, this sergeant was yelling at us: 'Serub out those toilet bowls!' I said to myself. 'I want his job.'" Chuck Hamlin...
...Harlem's famous Cotton Club. It was not a happy time. Working conditions backstage were terrible, pay was bad, and when Lena's white stepfather tried to get her a bigger role, the club's white owners beat him up and pushed his head into a toilet bowl. After joining another band, she recalls, "I literally ran away and married the first...
...Another puzzle is why the bulky, swept-winged "bird" showed greater lift than expected on descent, which carried it half a mile beyond its intended landing spot at Edwards Air Force Base in California. A small glitch was caused by the failure of the shuttle's zero-g toilet, an air-blown device that somehow became plugged up during the flight. Says NASA's Aaron Cohen: "We're in the troubleshooting mode now on that...
...that the student body will have a "decisive influence" on anything is remarkable, not to mention incorrect. Historically, the University administration has ignored student opinion on issues like divestiture of South Africa-related investments or guidelines for accepting alumni gifts Students did once support a referendum demanding provision of toilet paper to the River Houses, and the University later complied. But administrators emphatically insisted, it wasn't the student survey but more direct tactics--the theft of massive quantities of toilet paper from Harvard buildings--that swayed them. The administration of this University looks at what students ask, decides...
...especially for Skocpol and Lange? Finally, the Student Assembly refused to endorse the El Salvador candlelight march despite polls showing student support and some 1400 signatures on petitions. The committee concerned did not "have tiem" to debate the merits and demerits of the struggle in El Salvador. Apparently, obtaining toilet paper for the river houses and throwing cocktail parties at 33 Dunster Street are the Assembly's biggest credits...