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...WORKMAN'S COMPENSATION
...Said Nelson Rockefeller: "Well, we can't go down any farther. We're at the bottom." Said Happy: "Oh well, then I won't worry about it." After five interminable minutes, the doors opened and Nelson, Happy and eight other passengers climbed out. "Hey," gawked a workman, "it's the Governor." "Hey, Governor!" shouted another, holding out a house phone, "say hello to Artie Menkler. He's the one who got you out." Rocky took the phone. "Thanks, Artie," he said. "We were just trying to reach the Governor of Michigan...
...SCOTT W. WORKMAN Dallas...
...construction machinery chewed away at the hill in Nice, digging out the foundation for a new luxury apartment building. Suddenly one of the sidewalk superintendents erupted with excitement. "Stop!" he shouted at a bulldozer operator: "Don't let anyone do any work near this spot." Reluctantly the workman obeyed. Dr. Henry de Lumley, 30, an archaeological specialist in the late paleolithic civilization, had the authority of the French Ministry of Culture behind him, and among the stones scooped up by the bulldozer, he had recognized some hand-hewed tools of prehistoric...
...notion that a shepherd of souls should wear a workman's coveralls first got important attention one evening in 1943, when Paris' Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard, who died in 1949, picked up a book written by two of his abbes and sat up the entire night reading it. Authors Henri Godin and Yvan Daniel contended that the French working class, to a large extent seduced by Marxist ideology, regarded the church as reactionary and the Christian faith as irrelevant. The authors argued that priests should go to work in factories and live among workers' families while preaching...