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...become a mercenary because I'm not involved any more." That is how Bill Russell, player-coach of pro basketball's champion Boston Celtics, announced his retirement in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED last week. By giving up his coaching job ("that prime incubator of ulcers") and his $250,000-a-year contract, Russell ends a career in which he helped the Celtics to eleven championships in 13 seasons. Russell says he is now considering a career in "the field of entertainment." But back in Boston, they were taking it all with a grain of salt. Said Celtics General Manager...
...formed his own management-consultant firm called Performance Technology Corp. After doing some military contract work, he was hired by the Pentagon in 1965 and given the title of Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Affairs. Fitzgerald says that he took the $28,000-a-year job in hope of making reforms from within. "I had hoped," he recalls, "that once inside the Pentagon I could identify dramatic opportunities for cost reductions without endangering the nation's security...
...migrant farm worker, the Mexican American has a life expectancy of about 48 years v. 70 for the average U.S. resident. The Chicano birth rate is double the U.S. average?but so is the rate of infant mortality. More than one-third live below the $3,000-a-year level of family income that federal statisticians define as poverty. Eighty percent of the Mexican-American population is now urban, and most live in the barrio...
...rubble of the Soviet embassy, which had been hit by Russian bombers at the outset of the Russo-Finnish Winter War. Student "commandos" raised money by persuading engineering executives and 6,000 alumni to donate. Today, the union's dorms and cafeterias do a $1,700,000-a-year business and provide temporary jobs for scores of students. Together, the three student unions have a fulltime payroll of 1,000, including the hotel managers, who are picked by the elected student councils. Since the wholly student-owned enterprises pay no income tax, they can reinvest heavily in new ventures...
...Black, however, have thus far refused to go along. Though Douglas has resigned from his $12,000-a-year presidency of the Parvin Foundation, his lec ture agent reported that he has not stopped booking speaking engagements...