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Studs Terkel, author of the "oral history" Working: "The most rewarding moment comes when a stranger writes and says, 'I have read Working and now I'll never talk rudely to a waitress again...
...greasy spoon diner in a one-horse New Mexico town. The play opens with Red Ryder boldly announcing his plans to leave his stifling job as night man at the greasy spoon and hit the big time. He vents his frustration by bullying the pitiful, obese, waitress, Angel, who is quite apparently in love with him, though he scorns...
...half an hour. The gift shop sold out of men's disposable underwear; deodorant and razor blades were perilously short. Rows of pup tents sprang up at the airport's entrance and many passengers overflowed onto a covered area near the parking lot. Groused Pat Shaw, a waitress from Buffalo: "I've slept on concrete for three days, and the big moral question facing me at night is whether to sleep in my clothes or on them...
Linda Collins, wife of a Chicago steel-worker and mother of two small children, has reluctantly gone to work as a night waitress on weekends to cover living expenses. Gladys Glazer, a retired secretary in Orlando, Fla., shops where second-quality vegetables and fruits are offered at reduced prices, and even there she shuns strawberries as an extravagance. Manhattan Lawyer Arthur Alexander delivers some letters in person to nearby business offices to save on postage...
...sixth day as an elevator starter. Charles Ogasapain, owner of the Arlington Candy Co. in Woburn, Mass., cannot afford additional help, because rising costs of labor and materials are chewing up his profits. So he works twelve hours a day himself. Cynthia Bako could not earn enough as a waitress in Portland, Ore., to put herself through college, so she joined the Army to get free courses in electronics. Says she: "The Army is the young person's only hedge against being steamrollered by the cost of living...