Word: workman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...here? I'm down in Stillman Infirmary with a cold and I forgot to bring toothpaste. I went to the main desk and asked the nurse if I could get some and she said "No, you'll have to get someone to bring you some." There was a workman in khakis standing at the desk, one of these people who changes light bulbs and sets thermostats and without being asked he turned to me and said...
...contests for state and local offices, made some respectable showings elsewhere. In three counties in North Carolina, G.O.P. candidates swept every major contested office, upsetting the speaker of the state legislature's lower house in a contest for a state senate seat. In South Carolina, Newspaperman William D. Workman Jr., who joined the Republican Party only a year ago, gathered 43% of the votes for U.S. Senator in a race against Incumbent Olin Johnston. In the Texas gubernatorial contest, Republican Jack Cox lost to Democrat John B. Connally, former Navy Secretary in the Kennedy Administration, but came closer...
South Carolina. The only issue in the campaign, says Senator Olin Johnston, is "one fella has the job and the other fella wants it." The other fella is William D. Workman Jr.. newspaper columnist who formally joined the Republican Party only last fall. He is waging the most formidable Republican campaign for the Senate in South Carolinians' memories. But it is not quite formidable enough...
Death in the Dark. Two men had been killed, both of them noncombatants gunned down in the darkness of the campus. Paul Guihard, a French newspaperman representing Agence France-Presse, was shot in the back while covering the battle. An Oxford workman named Ray Gunter was shot in the forehead while merely watching it. A total of 166 marshals, 30% of all those sent to Oxford, suffered injuries or wounds, along with some 40 soldiers and National Guardsmen...
...Though he is a dandy in his uniform, Agustin Munoz Grandes has never liked the pomp of his office as chief of Spain's General Staff, and has remained a relatively modest man. He regularly attends soccer games in Madrid dressed in sports clothes more suitable to a workman; he and his wife live in a small, unpretentious apartment, and he rolls his own small black cigarettes. Unlike other Cabinet ministers who tool around Madrid in chauffeur-driven Cadillacs and Mercedeses, Munoz Grandes favors a small black sedan. Once he drove along Madrid's streets stopping chauffeured military...