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...raise in two years and has been laid off four times in the past 13 years. Says he: "I'm tired of being laid off. What good is having more money if you don't have a job?" Scott Debruit, 34, a maintenance welder apprentice at the same plant, was temporarily let go from May 1981 to January 1984. He wants to keep on working and voted against the strike authorization. Said he: "I need to catch up. I'm still paying bills from times when I was laid...
...obstetrics waiting room at Norfolk's in-vitro clinic, a woman sits crying. Thirty-year-old Michel Jones and her husband Richard, 33, a welder at the Norfolk Navy yard, have been through the program four times, without success. Now their insurance company is refusing to pay for another attempt, and says Richard indignantly, "they even want their money back for the first three times." On a bulletin board in the room is a sign giving the schedule for blood tests, ultrasound and other medical exams. Beside it hangs a small picture of a soaring bird and the message...
...high noon in Bethesda, Md., home of the National Institutes of Health. The scene: a small French restaurant with hanging baskets and beamed ceiling. On one side of a table sat Dr. Robert Gallo, 47, a brash NIH scientist who started life as the son of a small-town welder and has become one of the nation's leading cancer researchers. Sensitive about his diploma from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia ("I had to fight to prove I was good, because I didn't go to Harvard"), Gallo gained a reputation in 1980 by becoming the first scientist...
...Police reported more than 100 jackknifed tractor trailers, and by midweek the city of Dallas, where the temperature dropped to 11°, had come to a virtual standstill as government offices and businesses stayed closed. "I'm a native Texan, and this weather has just bamboozled me," said Welder Bobby Labar...
...streets are only temporarily homeless-poor people whose predicament is the result of some personal catastrophe. Of the families lodged by New York City, a third have been evicted from apartments for not paying rent; the rest were driven out by fire or building condemnation. Ronald Thompson, a welder laid off in Texas, moved his wife and two small boys to Seattle last summer, hoping to find shipbuilding work. He did not, and the Thompsons, broke, finally spent weeks in a barren charity apartment. "I always thought I could give my family a home," he says. "Now, well, it just...