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John Malachowsky, an eighth-grader in West Babylon, N.Y., has been an avid builder of model rockets and airplanes since he was eight years old. When the price of his favorite enamel went from 15? to 19? a bottle, he realized that his $2-a-week allowance would not absorb the shock. So he sent a complaint to the Price Commission, charging that the Tester Corp. of Rockford, Ill., had raised the list price of its "Pla Enamel" well over 25%. "This is only $.04," he wrote, "but being only 12¾ years old, this is a big strain...
...year, inflation is a major reason that support for the Conservative government has dipped to a new low for the year in the polls (39% of the people say that they support the Tories, while 50% are for Labor). Last week Prime Minister Edward Heath proposed a voluntary $4.84-a-week pay-raise limit for all British workers for at least a year; he also asked for a 4% ceiling on price increases for manufactured goods. The proposals have yet to be approved by unenthusiastic unions and businessmen...
...When Mrs. Fannie Jefferies quit her $125-a-week typing job in New York, she decided to begin training as a teacher at Queensborough Community College, and to go on welfare as a needy mother. Three months later, city welfare officials decided that she was not eligible for benefits because her college was not a vocational school. Besides, she could already support herself as a typist. Mrs. Jefferies brought suit, and was joined by three other women in similar circumstances. Federal Judge Charles H. Tenney ruled that "the crucial issue" was whether the federally supported program for needy people included...
Still, Prine is not about to let success coax him away from the physical and emotional neighborhood that has nurtured him and his music. He and his wife continue to live in the same apartment they had when he was a $90-a-week mailman. He has lost his mailman's feet only to develop a case of ulcers. And he is still writing lyrics like Rocky Mountain Time...
...shouldn't I spend my second childhood in the country where I spent a happy first childhood?" By way of answer to that question, Poet Wystan Hugh Auden is going to give up his $35a-week apartment in Manhattan's East Village for a $9-a-week "grace and favor" cottage at Oxford, England. A New Yorker since 1939 and a U.S. citizen since 1946, Auden is anxious "to dispel any feeling that I am disgruntled with America or aggravated by life in New York. If I were 40, or even 50, I would stay here...