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John Jobes vividly remembers the day in 1971 when he first met his future wife Nancy. Both were high school students in Parsippany, N.J. "She was a very independent, headstrong, loving person," he recalls. They married a few years after graduation, when John was working as a machinist and Nancy as a lab technician. Then six years ago, while she was pregnant with their first child, Nancy was injured in a traffic accident; several bones were broken, and the baby was lost. "She was a real tiger and a real fighter," John recalls, but her struggle to recover ended abruptly...
...salary of $625,000. While the award might have been merited in view of the $3.7 billion GM earned in 1983, it was a dreadful labor relations blunder. Workers, who had been enduring wage freezes for more than two years, were outraged. Robert Sidwell, 45, a machinist at the Chevrolet plant in Parma, still has neither forgotten nor forgiven. Said he last week: "One man doesn't deserve that much. I don't care if he's the Queen of Sheba...
...four winners-a housewife, a machinist, a manicurist and a hospital maid-are understandably elated: each will receive $263,095 a year, minus the 20% federal tax bite, for the next 21 years. Shortly after hearing that she had won, Weonta Fitzgerald, 64, quit her job as a cleaning woman at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, N.Y. "I was broke, now I'm rich!" she exulted. But the biggest winner by far did not have to wait in line: New York State, which stands to reap an estimated $11 million in education funds from that one giant jackpot alone...
...biggest pile of all belongs to the legendary Ed Grothus, a former machinist who spent 20 years building "better" bombs ("Be sure to put in the quotes," he says). He has been coming to salvage for 25 years, and his business, the Los Alamos Sales Co., by now claims to offer the "world's most diversified stock of scientific equipment!" Grothus, 60, is the ultimate Los Alamos contradiction. He has collected five warehouses of salvage even as he has become vociferously more antinuclear, propeace and technodoubtful...
...most of his 40 years, John, a Los Angeles machinist, has thought of himself as "a no-good, useless bastard." That is what his father, who beat him with sticks and belts until he was 13, continually called him. And that, for a time, is what John became. He left home after high school, joined the Navy, but failed to mature. "I couldn't deal with adults. I was a loner and avoided people unless I was picking fights with them." He drank too much, married a divorced woman with a three-year-old daughter, and discovered that "emotionally...