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Gardiner Hempel, 48, president of Speedcall Corp., a small electronics firm in Hayward, Calif., was tired of going home each evening reeking of tobacco smoke. A ban on smoking at the plant seemed too harsh a step. So, a year ago, he offered his 36 employees a $7-a-week bonus for not puffing on the job. To qualify, they have to put their names on a weekly sign-up sheet hanging beneath a poster that reads: SMOKERS ARE O.K. NON-SMOKERS...
YALE OFFICIALS countered Wolff's report with a stream of statements and handouts supporting the university's positions, and over the weeks the dispute has bogged down into a stalemate over the facts and figures of each side's arguments. Meanwhile, the strikers are living on a $30-a-week union picketers' allowance, as white collar workers man the facilities that are still open. The university's power plants and the freshman commons dining hall remain in use, but the residential college dining halls and the custodial service have been shut down since the strike began. The university is giving...
Grandfather David gave Lance a $90-a-week job as a teller in the bank, and he helped make ends meet by refereeing high school football games. In 1963 Lance and a group of friends bought control of the bank and he became its president. At the age of 32 he was finally off and running. As one longtime Calhoun resident puts it, "He was the best damn energizer of people ever to shake your hand." To bolster the local economy, Lance gave high-risk loans to people willing to start small businesses making tufted carpets. Today the carpet factories...
...while in Korea-which might have drastically altered his behavior. His few former friends found him changed and difficult when he returned from the Army in 1974. He picked up various jobs, including serving as a private security guard before taking a civil service exam and landing his $256-a-week position sorting mail by machine. He worked 4 p.m. to midnight, which gave him ample time after hours to search for young women whom he could gun down in the dark with minimal risk of being caught...
...only "featured players.") Mengers slyly arranged for Director Mike Nichols to "discover" Client Ann-Margret by inviting them both to one of her frequent dinner parties. "If a person comes to my house for dinner, he has to return my call the next day," she says. A former $135-a-week secretary for the William Morris Agency in New York, Mengers now makes more than $300,000 a year, wields a $40,000 expense account, and has just about everything else she wants. Except George C. Scott as a client, and a body like Candice Bergen...