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...illegal to fire us for forming a union," Mittie Luetara, a waitress who was interviewed but not rehired, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Employees of Eugene's Appeal to NLRB About Firing | 3/8/1980 | See Source »

...exists both on and off the screen: a soft-spoken Texan in a Savile Row suit, easygoing in a down-home country way and clearly in a big hurry, an adopted Easterner who has polished his background instead of forgetting it. The son of a pipeline worker and a waitress, Rather grew up in Houston and played end on his high school football team, hoping to win an athletic scholarship when he graduated. The only place interested enough to take a look was Sam Houston State Teachers College. Rather's mother cashed in two $25 savings bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Houston Hurricane | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...never changed then either. The hotel bar, the only one functioning in town, can occasionally come up with a bottle of "33" beer imported from Viet Nam. The menu of the Samarki's dining room is limited to watery vegetable soup, chicken and rice. As a waitress admitted: "To tell you the truth, there is nothing, monsieur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: There Is Nothing, Monsieur | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...much do you tip a waitress who already makes six figures? That was the question for customers at Washington's Capital Hilton Hotel coffee shop last week as Linda Lavin served up hamburgers and cleared away dirty dishes. Lavin, better known as Alice when she waits on prime-time television tables at Mel's Diner, was in town to accept an award: the National Commission on Working Women found her the TV character to whom real-life blue-and pink-collar working women most relate. Does Lavin relate back? "I'm on my feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 29, 1979 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...opera, invariably suffers most. The plot line of The Most Happy Fella is the kind of story that babies tell to babies. An elderly Italian-born Napa Valley grape grower named Tony (Giorgio Tozzi) is smitten with instant love for Rosabella (Sharon Daniels), a young San Francisco waitress. Tony woos and wins her by mail, aided by the deceptive use of a photograph of his strappingly virile farm manager, Joe (Richard Muenz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Monopod | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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