Word: electricians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the cardinal explained that he had removed Mazzi not as punishment but for "a period of reflection" -possibly hinting at a more conciliatory position. As for Don Mazzi, he insisted that if he is not reinstated, he will seek a job in Isolotto as an electrician's apprentice. "To obey the hierarchy is to ignore the deepest needs of the poor," he said. "But to satisfy these needs is to encounter the opposition of the hierarchy. So we have to become either Pharisees or rebels. And we don't want to become either...
...blue-chip stock, I'd take that business." Since brokers often act as if they are doing him a favor by accepting his money, the odd-lotter frequently feels like odd man out. "I've only got $2,500 to play with," says Hollywood Electrician Richard Johnson. "I know that's not much. But I've had to change brokers three times in the past year, and each time I've had to invest more than I wanted just to make a purchase. That's not right...
...crack Cincinnati's all-white Local 212 of the International Brother hood of Electrical Workers, but none has been better qualified or more persistent than Anderson L. Dobbins, 37. A graduate of Virginia's Hampton Institute, a predominantly Negro liberal arts college, he passed a city electrician's exam in Newport News, Va. In Cincinnati, he tried off and on for years to join the local-in vain. The union said he had to get work before he could be a member; the employers said he could not work without a union card. Last month...
...Your excellent article, ". . . And Now a Word about Commercials" [July 12], suffers from one serious omission. It does not mention a device known to the fraternity of electricians as the "blab-off." This consists of an electric cord of any length, with an on-off switch at one end, the other attached to the speaker in the set. With it you can turn off the sound as you wish, while the picture continues. Any electrician will install this thing for a trifling fee. The viewer then need not pay to the sponsor the "heavy tribute" of listening to commercials...
...practice more pertinent skills such as industrial design, medical technology and visual communications. "I worked in the shops for four years," says one still-unemployed electronics graduate of The Bronx's Samuel Gompers Vocational and Technical High School. "I couldn't even get a job as an electrician's helper...