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...histrionics of professional wrestling. In most of the "fights," the punches are pulled but they still send skaters sprawling. When the girls roll onto the Masonite track, the contact becomes more genuine-with shrieking, scratching and hair pulling thrown in. The female heavy is Joan Weston, a $20,000-a-year blonde Bomber who sends opponents flipping over the guard rails with one twitch of her mighty hips. As her bumpy, bruised knuckles attest, she can be equally menacing with an uppercut ("I can't keep a long nail," she says). She takes her lumps too, most often from...
...infighting got nastier, it seemed to turn into a classic test of strength. On one side, an owner threatened: "If we can't use major-leaguers, we'll fill up our rosters with minor-leaguers." On the other, Marvin Miller, the $55,000-a-year negotiator for the Players' Association, accused the owners of circulating a "misleading and deceptive propaganda document" and instigating "vicious personal attacks in the vague hope of destroying the Players' Association...
...short, and anybody with a specialty-or plain verve and nerve-is greatly in demand. With unemployment down to a 15-year low of 3.3%, and want ads bulging in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times, there are more openings for $15,000-a-year engineers and $10,000-a-year computer programmers than the work force can possibly fill. People are hopping from job to job as never before, always searching for-and usually getting -the richer reward. Some jobs, of course, pay conspicuously more than others. From campus to board room, there...
Highest and Lowest. Americans are undoubtedly the world's highest-paid people, though Europeans and Japanese collect far flossier fringe benefits. Still, a $7,000-a-year bank teller hardly feels happy about the fact that he may be earning 25% more than his Continental counterpart. The human tendency is to gauge compensation not by one's needs but by the relative pay of peers-countrymen, colleagues and neighbors. Many truck drivers last year earned more than $15,000, thanks to the Teamsters' knack of squeezing out the most in wage negotiations. Human nature being what...
...commission. She is Virginia Mae Brown, 45, a lively brunette and loyal Democrat who was appointed to the eleven-member commission in 1964 by Lyndon Johnson. Having succeeded to the ICC's annually rotating chairmanship this year, she leads a staff of 1,784 that processes about 6,000 cases a year. "Peaches" Brown, as the ICC's $29,500-a-year chairman is known, also manages to take care of two children and make frequent trips home to the 700-acre Pliny, W. Va., estate that was deeded to her family in the 18th century by George...