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...back-slapping Georgian who went to work as a welder in 1941 and later was an official of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Usery has made no enemies as the Government's "middleman" in labor disputes. He has been a tenacious round-the-clock bargainer who often appealed to negotiators' patriotism. Usery was instrumental in averting a walkout of 13,000 railroad signalmen in 1969 and later settled a bitter, eleven-week teachers' strike in Philadelphia. In directing and coordinating the political, civil rights and community-affairs activities...
...mathematician and an engineer from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, an engineer from the Naval Research Lab, a consulting chemist, an organic farmer, an auto mechanic, a theoretical physicist with a practical turn of mind, a carpenter, two women with lab jobs or training, a woman weaver, a welder (me) and the founder of Communitas...
...tedium on the assembly line. We come away with a sense of the immediacy of the jobs themselves that opens up a large ideological space between shots that mock Pompidou visiting an auto show and those that cannot help but celebrate the flow of enameled bodies or a welder's master touch...
DeLorean had been in that job only since last October. The son of a Detroit welder, he came to G.M. in 1956 from Packard, after that company folded, and quickly made a name as a crack engineer. He is credited by G.M. with such innovations as the overhead camshaft engine and the concealed windshield wiper. As head of Chevrolet, he set industry sales records in 1971 and 1972. But after ascending last fall to the group vice presidency in charge of all car and truck production, DeLorean became visibly unhappy. As had been his wont, he showed up late...
...pockets of Duvalier and his sly henchman. Soon Cambronne was flaunting his new-found wealth: he became an habitué of the most popular brothels and a high-stakes poker player. He also developed a fondness for expensive sharkskin suits, which he usually wore with welder-black sunglasses...