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...common experience of Ellis Island fostered a fitting sort of quasi- kinship among U.S. citizens: nearly half of all Americans today can trace their lineage through the enormous main registry hall. Last week, as two visitors strolled the rich, elegiac ruin, a workman spontaneously announced his family connection with the place. "My grandmother came here when she was 17 years old," he shouted, "with nothing but a suitcase full of oranges. A suitcase full of oranges...
...Balkans from 1942 to 1945. While there is no proof that Waldheim was guilty of war crimes, the evidence indicates that he had to be aware of criminal atrocities and was flagrantly misleading in describing his wartime career. At a bar in the village of Spittal, a young workman blurts out, "I just don't want a liar for a President...
Powers said union claims that the University is stalling on paying workman's compensation are unfair because officers are sometimes unwilling to discuss how they were injured...
Citing one example, Powers said, "That officer has refused to answer questions regarding that incident. Insurance companies investigate all of their claims, and we have to investigate all claims for workman's comp...
...phobias: "superficiality, vulgarity especially in women, untidiness of mind and person, and cigars." Before she married Ronald Reagan in 1952, she made eight movies, one of the best of them Night into Morning, starring Ray Milland. Says Milland of his co-star: "She was a damned good workman...