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Salazar rules calmly from the background, hating every minute of the occasional public appearances he cannot avoid. Living piously, almost austerely (up at 6:30 every morning for Mass), he pays himself a $500-a-month salary (plus a Lisbon mansion and a summer place made from an old seacoast fortress). He governs a land of 8,500,000 people and 35,000 square miles, plus overseas possessions (e.g., Mozambique, Macao) which make Portugal No. 3 of the world's colonial powers. His face-dominated by dark, thoughtful eyes and a long nose, and topped by neat, grey hair...
Nevertheless, the great majority of oldsters do not want to retire, and many of them can ill afford it. The Social Security Administration, interviewing 18,000 retired men and women, found that only 700 had retired voluntarily. And many find it hard to retire on the $100-a-month or less which they get from combined pensions and Government old-age benefits. Yet if they go back to work, the law cuts off all Government payments if they earn more than $75 a month...
...less than 1% a year, kept the company unhampered by outside unions and major strikes,, and left it free to concentrate on its main job of selling. P. & G. treats its top men with equal generosity. President McElroy, who started out with P. & G. as a $100-a-month clerk 28 years ago, now earns $240,000 a year...
...Painter Chapin got fed up with Greenwich Village and outgrew his own imitations of Cezanne. He found a $4-a-month log cabin in northern New Jersey, holed in there for five decisive years. Chapin emerged from the hills with portraits, as sharp and solid as plowshares, of the hard-bitten farm people among whom he had lived. Shortly after his return, in Manhattan, Chapin happened to see a young Negro girl named Ruby Green singing in the Hall Johnson Choir and did her portrait (as Ruby Greene-absent-minded Painter Chapin misspelled her name-she now has a small...
...Breadalbane and Holland, might easily have won fame & fortune as the hero of a P. G. Wodehouse novel. He is tall, languid, perennially short of cash and preoccupied with strange solutions for his problem. Lord Glenorchy has tried his luck as barman, bagpiper and laborer to supplement the $28-a-month pension he draws as a wounded veteran of the famed Black Watch Regiment. No luck...