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Meanwhile, in Lynwood, a largely ethnic neighborhood of Los Angeles, another Union Summer group gathered at 8 o'clock on a recent morning across the street from the Superior Super Warehouse and readied for a "blitz." "You'll be scared," warned veteran organizer Lois Elbornetti. "But don't worry, just have fun." The students had to "roach" the nonunion store--they entered en masse, headed for the back, then spread like cockroaches. They quickly handed out leaflets with the phone number of the United Food & Commercial Workers to all employees. And got out fast. The plan went like clockwork, with...
...summer after my junior year I decided to work in a lab in Paris. It was interesting work, and I could use my newfound knowledge later on in the summer to explain to my German teacher what might be the cause of her battle with the 5 o'clock shadow. Of course I couldn't be too sure about it--I only knew that "Daisy" (a kind of gene) might have caused some of her problems. But at the end of the month I craved sunshine, and it started to grate on me that I had to take...
TRENT LOTT (R., Miss.), above right --$225 Waterford clock from Mississippi State University --$972 Steuben eagle from the Bryce Harlow Foundation --$5,000 silver statue of Columbus from United Seamen's Service...
...Next year she's going to law school. She's going to get serious about running and try the Los Angeles Marathon just for fun. (A basket of ripe sweat socks to the reader who guesses how close to the women's marathon record of 2:21.06 she will clock on her first try; the guess here is 2:32.) Maybe, she says, she'll try some journalism; communications was her major at the University of Southern California...
...Like the clock and candlestick from "Beauty and the Beast," "Hunchback" animates the inanimate for comic relief. Three gargoyles are Quasi's only friends in the cathedral. Like Calvin's Hobbes, the Gargoyles are alive only to Quasimodo. They character's are a small tribute to the original Hunchback's author, as two of the three are named Vic and Hugo...