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...election to a nine-year term that carries a $25,000-a-year tax-free salary, a World Court candidate must receive an absolute majority in both the General Assembly and the Security Council, which vote separately and secretly. Last week four candidates got the required majorities right away, but it took four ballots in the Security Council and three in the General Assembly to decide the contest for the fifth seat, which finally went to Senegal's Isaac Forster, 60, former president of his nation's supreme court and the first World Court member from south...
...pilot and test pilot who was Charles Lindbergh's copilot on one of the first transcontinental passenger runs in 1929, Bellande now restricts his piloting to the company Convair. Behind his desk, on which sits a dime-store statuette of a hula dancer, Garrett's $99,000-a-year boss is a smooth delegator of authority, a stickler for punctuality. At home in Bel Air, he collects shotguns and rifles, which he uses on Jeep trips across the California countryside in search of game birds...
...cackled when I read your article on Thornton. Ten years ago when he left Hughes, I researched him, liked what I read, walked into his office cold and came out with a $15,000-a-year public relations contract. Hoping to get a raise from the skinflint that I worked for in Chicago, I phoned the news to get a go-ahead. He said, "Go back and ask for $30,000-he'll never last the year...
...thought he saw a way to do better still. Hearing that his University of Illinois classmate, Charles Luckman, had been fired from his $300,000-a-year job as president of the U.S. branch of Lever Bros., Pereira could not resist the chance to recruit an old pal. Off went a letter to Chuck, accompanied by a package containing the plans Luckman had made as his final school project?for a monastery. "For 20 years I've had my eye on this guy," wrote Pereira to Luckman. "That's why I've saved this. I think he's mature enough...
Along with conferences and TV shows, Washington's Community Leadership Project will put out a bimonthly magazine of translations, edited by non-sociologists. In the unedited words of Sociologist Alvin W. Gouldner, who thought it up, the $ 135,000-a-year proj ect will cut the "time slippage" between academic discovery and "utilization by individuals" in fields from business to politics. Right from the first, of course, the editors will face the puzzle of pick ing material that will turn out to be worth utilizing. Sample risks...