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...first Othello, Coward's Hayfever, Brecht's Mother Courage. Peter Hall was involved in a similar buskin-strap operation on the Royal Shakespeare Company. Before he took over in 1960, the group had restricted itself to Shakespeare at Stratford on Avon. Today, thanks to a $252,000-a-year subsidy, Hall has added a London theater, the Aldwych, and a year-round company of 110. Marat/Sade is a Royal Shakespeare production...
...weeks to answer a call, then, after fumbling about for a bit, to leave a flood where only a drip had existed before. Capitalizing on the general state of disrepair among France's repairmen, SOS's two young owners have built up a $1,000,000-a-year business out of providing prompt and relatively effective service. Gerard Verger, 33, and Joel Laval, 31, started SOS (telephone SOS 99-99) in 1961 with two motorcycles and two trucks. Today, they operate 100 trucks, all radio-equipped, that are manned by a versatile crew of not only plumbers...
...briefly became TV's top-rated star on The $64,000 Question, when he correctly identified the opera with which Toscanini made his operatic debut (Aida) for $32,000, then declined an all-or-nothing chance at the jackpot, after which he became a $10,000-a-year good-will ambassador for the Biltrite Rubber Heel Company; of cancer; in Miami...
...101st Senator." The indictment offers a glimpse at how the onetime $19,612-a-year Senate employee was able to scrape together a fortune that ran up to $2,000,000. The specific charges involve devious transactions over 3½ years that brought Bobby some $137,000 from clients who felt the need of his special talents as "the 101st Senator." None of the money, which he received largely in cash, was reported as taxable income. Furthermore, Baker not only deceived the Government but apparently never played quite foursquare with his cohorts...
...straight to their wallets. To help offset higher benefits and the new medicare program, the social security withholding nick in take-home pay went up from 3.625% to 4.2% on Jan. 1. As a result, a man earning $100 a week saw his paycheck shrink 58?. The $10,000-a-year man's first weekly take-home was down...