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...reward: Kennedy nominated him to become Under Secretary of Commerce. After confirmation by the Senate (where an un-vengeful Humphrey is now Democratic whip), Roosevelt, 48, a former Congressman from New York (1949-54) who is presently a Fiat and Jaguar dealer in Washington, will take the $21,000-a-year post being vacated by Edward Gudeman, who is returning to private business...
...York University, he went back to the University of Virginia to teach. By the time President Kennedy tapped him to be the nation's chief tax collector, Caplin was earning $15.000 a year as a professor and about $12.000 more as a consulting lawyer; taking his $20,3000-a-year post on the New Frontier meant a loss in income...
...that was missing was a string ensemble whimpering Hearts and Flowers when onetime Trumpeter James Caesar Petrillo, 70, put down the baton as $26,000-a-year leader of the "100% organized" Chicago Local 10 of the American Federation of Musicians, a podium he had occupied for 40 stormy years. Near the end of his 45-minute farewell, the old union dragon who lost his job by a narrow 95 votes in a recent election glanced up at a portrait of himself on the wall, sniffed tentatively and dissolved into tears on the ever-ready shoulder of Toastmaster George Jessel...
...this long, mocking novel those little flowers are hero and heroine: Randolph Sudderland Shepherdson III, a rich, stupendously naive, goodhearted young man; and his fiancee, Laurie Mae Lytle, a beautiful, innocent, saintly young schoolteacher. They will be blissfully happy, living on love and Randy's $50,000-a-year income from his inheritance...
...technology of its own to pass on. The company's experience of starting from scratch helped it win a $20 million contract from the Sudanese government to direct the erection of a now completed textile complex at Khartoum. P.-P. also has a $300,000-a-year contract until 1971 to supervise the operation of the plant and train Sudanese in textile making...