Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group then picked its way down a windowless staircase, over workmen and plaster, and into the sunlight of the first floor. "My," a Reunioner whispered, "I hope the air conditioning never goes off." Babcock was showing them the TV studio, the IBM room, and the teaching machine room when the bells from neighboring Christ Church, an old grey building with windows, rang...
...Newark, Workmen's Compensation Court Judge Kathryn G. Sugrue ruled that the New Jersey Turnpike Authority derived "a certain amount of benefit" from Maintenance Man Richard Marshall's services as a player on the Authority's softball team. Judge Sugrue awarded Marshall's widow and four children $38,130.04 in compensation for the fatal "on-the-job" heart attack he suffered while giving his all for his turnpike employers in a softball game last summer...
...water and medicine, plus an eight-hour workday. Yet the work is still so dangerous that last year nearly 50% of all U.S. seamen suffered injuries.* Since ships are, in effect, monarchies afloat, seamen are also close to being indentured workers. Seamen have successfully resisted being covered by workmen's compensation, which pays only modest amounts for disability arising from employment. They revel in gambling for considerably larger awards through wide-ranging lawsuits...
Signals & Flips. "A word of explanation," began Assistant Conductor Edward Murphy, as workmen lowered a basketball Scoreboard over his head. In playing the score, he explained, the opposed conductors (Murphy and De Carvalho) would choose a "tactic" or a combination of two "tactics." They would then pass their choice on to the musicians by means of hand signals, and to a scorekeeper by the flip of numbered switches on a little box. The scorekeeper used a chart prepared by the composer with the help of a computer that supposedly showed which tactic had triumphed...
...does no good to patch streets if the patches are going to wash out in the next day's rain. Each week City workmen fill three-foot deep holes on Mass. Ave. near Littauer and each week the some holes reappear, a little deeper than before. The holes are filled with gravel held together by something sticky, but it obviously is not sticky enough. Bicyclists who try to avoid the gaps in the street run the risk of being struck...