Word: electricians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject of service, the duke likes to quote his father's maxim that getting things done on a royal standard requires a man and a half for every job. For the Windsors' movable household, that means some 20 people, from the duchess' secretary down to an electrician-mechanic. "I call the duchess the cruise director," the duke explained last week to TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo. "She runs everything. The house is the ship." The duke's role on their perpetual cruise ship? "He's the content traveler," said the duchess, to which the duke replied...
...take him," said Becker, who promptly sent the boy to work off some of his aggressions under the supervision of the school's janitor, washing windows, shoveling sidewalks, sweeping floors. The youth is now completing his junior year at Schuyler and learning to be an electrician in one of the school's shop courses. "We have no problem kids," says Becker confidently. "We just have kids with problems...
...anxious to part with the satchel. After all, they said, "it has his initials on it, and the tag says The Honorable Hubert H. Humphrey.'" When the Vice President and his wife moved into their new southwest Washington apartment in October, they agreed to let their electrician, Paul Varoutsos, and his wife Jeanette auction off some of the junk at the old Humphrey house in Chevy Chase, Md., donating the proceeds to the local Children's Hospital. So far, the Humphreys' white elephants have raised...
...prospective employers that the applicant is a Negro. The most unyielding barriers to the Negro's advancement are put up not by corporations but by the craft unions, which are so biased that it is easier for a Negro to become a physician or junior manager than an electrician or a plumber. A recent Labor Department survey showed that in Baltimore there were no Negro apprentices among the steam fitters, sheet-metal workers or plumbers; in Newark, none among the stonemasons, structural ironworkers or steam fitters; in Pittsburgh, none among the operating engineers, painters or lathers; in Washington, none...
...have often wondered when an art director is building a set he creates a wall with a texture -- plaster, then he ages it down -- then the chief electrician smacks one light on it, and it ruins the whole thing. Everything's all been overlit. So now having got down to the minimum lights, the rest is a matter of taste in color...