Word: machinists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aboard the Belknap, an explosion blew Machinist's Mate Michael F. Cartolano Jr., 20, through a hatch into a bulkhead. He staggered on deck and looked up in horror. "The Kennedy was sitting right on top of us with her deck on fire," he recalls. "There it was - a nightmare...
...member United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (U.E.), who spent most of the 1950s under fire for suspected Communist sympathies; following a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Born in Soroca, Rumania, Matles arrived in the U.S. in 1929 and went to work as a machinist. When John L. Lewis set up the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1935, Matles practically singlehanded converted his AFL-affiliated colleagues in the International Association of Machinists into a new union, which he called the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. Under that umbrella name, it became...
...Biscuit Owner Jim Mooney, a machinist from nearby Torrance, transports him and the 30 other terrapins he races in water-filled ice chests in the back of his Dodge "turtle van." Says Mooney: "It shows a lot of class if you can keep a turtle healthy and running for five or six years." Main threat to the turtles' health: the customers at Brennan's. Fueled up on "jelly beans," a deadly concoction of anisette and blackberry brandy, they pose a mortal threat to the hardtop thoroughbreds plodding underfoot...
Much of A Chorus Line is taken from Bennett's own life and feelings about the theater. He was born in 1943 in Buffalo, the year Oklahoma! started Broadway on a musical bonanza. His mother worked as a secretary at Sears and his father as a machinist in the Chevy plant. They still do. By the time Michael was three, he was an incurable dancer to any music from the radio. His parents started him in dancing school, and he has never stopped-dancer in West Side Story and Subways Are for Sleeping, choreographer of Company and Follies...
...criminal career that has spanned two decades, Gary Addison Taylor, 39, an itinerant Michigan machinist, has robbed, raped, stabbed and otherwise brought mayhem to at least a dozen women in three states. Incredibly, courts and psychiatrists time and again have declined to keep him confined. Last week Houston police were holding Taylor on serious charges that may finally put him behind bars for good...