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...About 50 truck drivers and warehousemen from the August A. Busch Co. plant picketed outside the museum to show their sympathy for 16 of the distributor's non-union clerical employees who walked off their jobs on October...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain and Catherine L. Schmidt, S | Title: Busch Employees Strike to Join Union | 11/1/1983 | See Source »

...only incident involving strikers occurred on the first day of the picketing, when several union drivers lay down in front of a Budweiser delivery truck to prevent it from leaving the garage. The protesters were arrested by the Cambridge police...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain and Catherine L. Schmidt, S | Title: Busch Employees Strike to Join Union | 11/1/1983 | See Source »

...situation was bizarre. In a minor incident whose initial form was to be echoed large half a world away a few hours later, a lone driver had rammed his truck through the gates of Georgia's Augusta National Golf Club, site of the Masters Tournament. Reagan had been playing the par-three, water-guarded 16th hole under cloudy skies with two Cabinet officers and a former Senator. Now he was seated in a Secret Service car parked near the 16th green trying to talk by radiotelephone to the driver holding hostages in the famed club's pro shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanting to Talk to Reagan | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...danger. But if he had completed two more of the 18 holes, either he or his Secret Service guards might have confronted the emotional intruder near the clubhouse. The gunman, Charles R. Harris, 44, a millwright from Blythe, Ga., had rammed his blue four-wheel-drive pickup truck through a locked gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanting to Talk to Reagan | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

When Marcus Dupree was five, his mother enrolled him in the first grade on the opening day of total integration for the Philadelphia public schools. His father, a man named Connors, was gone. "Dupree" is the surname of his maternal grandfather, a truck driver and occasional preacher. "Marcus" came from Shakespeare, Marc Antony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Symbol of Unhappiness | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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