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Typically, New Yorker Robert Kertz lost his $350-a-week job as a senior planning analyst at Eastern Airlines last January; since then, he has worked only two months during the summer as a consultant. Airlines are not hiring, and Kertz finds that no other employers have any interest in him, since he has spent his entire career in that business. He and his wife must try to meet basic living expenses of $600 to $700 a month on $75-a-week unemployment compensation. In Manhattan, Michael Parsons, laid off from a Madison Avenue job, has come up with...
...suspicious," Kemp recalls. "No one had ever given me anything in life-why now? But what did I have to lose?" He got a job with an antipoverty project in Harlem and attended school at night. Soon he qualified for a $50-a-week stipend and began attending during the day, taking an accelerated 50 credits a year instead of the usual 30. "I was skeptical about the SEEK program lasting," he says. "I don't believe in white altruism, and I thought it would be just another crumb, a token. At the end of every year there...
...Harold Willens, 56, started as a $10-a-week grocery clerk to support his parents...
...live with an East Village junkie. She is not there when her father goes to her apartment, but he gets into an argument with her boy friend and inadvertently beats him to death. He staggers into a local bar where Joe (Peter Boyle), a $160-a-week welder, is holding forth. When Joe finally screams, "I'd like to kill one of them!", Compton looks up and whispers, "I just did." Joe later realizes that Compton was serious. He looks him up-not to blackmail him but to idolize him. "There's plenty of people," says...
...literary reputation solidly established, he set to work on Samarra. Between August and November he rattled out 25,000 words, then ran out of money. He promptly sent copies of the early chapters to three publishers, asking for an advance. Harcourt, Brace responded with $500 and a $50-a-week allowance...