Word: truck
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Three different unions have contested the right to represent the 265 Harvard tradesmen--carpenters, electricians, plumbers, groundskeepers, truck drivers, and mechanics--who comprise the BGMA...
Died. Jayne Mansfield, 34, sometime actress and full-time publicity chaser; of a crushed skull when the car she was riding in slammed into a truck, also killing Attorney Samuel S. Brody, 40, and their chauffeur; in New Orleans. Endowed with a pretty, pouty face and an astounding (40-18-36) figure, Jayne was single-mindedly intent on becoming a "Hollywood personality," and in a way she succeeded-by flooding the papers with peep-show photos and an incredible series of antic marriages, mishaps and escapades. In her role as the dazzlingly dumb blonde in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...
...strike had been called by the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council, a group that seeks to represent the Building and Grounds Department's carpenters, plumbers, electricians, groundsmen, truck drivers, and other skilled workers. It ended Tuesday, June...
Tired of Responsibility. At 14, Joe Sorrentino began trying his hand at various jobs, achieving "a record of distinction for failing which even surpassed my scholastic career." On his first day of work at a bleach factory, "I attempted to carry ten gallons of bleach to a truck we were loading. We lost all ten. At 16,1 worked in a sweater factory, where I had the embarrassing experience of being awakened from a nap by the president of the company." He failed as a longshoreman. "My next opportunity came through a furniture company...
What, then did they take away with them? The Old Harvard, or the New Harvard, or both? The tradition--from the Hood milk truck (that waited in front of Mem Hall to snare freshmen for milk deliveries) to the last Yale game? Or the disruptive part, the protest, the angry academic debates in which too few of them played a central role? One thing is clear: both Harvard and the Class of '41 had several of their assumptions and traditions challenged before World War II ever swept down on them...