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...further indoctrination at the University College outside Accra, the Peace Corps teachers were assigned to 27 secondary schools scattered across the country. Compared with Peace Corpsmen elsewhere, those in Ghana are well off. In addition to their Peace Corps stipend of $75 a month, they are paid $1,960-a-year salaries by Ghana's government. Most of Ghana's schools are less than three years old and come complete with faculty homes that have two bedrooms, running water, flush toilets, electricity and, occasionally, air conditioning...
...speak fluent Portuguese, pick his way knowledgeably among Burgundy vintages, and discourse easily on modern French paintings (which he collects) or the problems that man will run into on the moon. He is also a down-to-earth executive. Rising in just 5½ Years from a $15,000-a-year engineer to chief executive officer with a current annual income of $135,000. Jones has reshaped Northrop from a lagging prime contractor to a broad-based "supplier of suppliers," whose profit rate of 3.2% on last year's sales of $267 million was the best among airframe makers...
...home ("New York is overrated; the West is so much further ahead in fashion"). Blond and slim and looking slightly like the late James Dean, George first started styling hair eight years ago in Grosse Pointe, Mich. The heads he dressed then belonged to ordinary, everyday $100,000-a-year executives' wives. Today he teases hair (at $25 a turn in the salon, $75 for a house call) on heads that belong to world-famous names...
...depreciation allowances. Businessmen are also worried about the possibility of higher taxes in January and petty tax annoyances right now. An airline president gripes about the Internal Revenue Bureau's crackdown on convention expenses; a major oil company president is miffed because he now has to pay $500-a-year personal income tax for the use of his company Cadillac...
That sort of thing, four times a day, is worth an $8,000,000-a-year gross to Rockefeller Center Inc., which owns and operates the Music Hall. The place has taken in as much as $42,660 in a single day, has grossed more than $169 million since its doors first opened in 1932, and with a total attendance figure to date of nearly 171 million, Music Hall shows have played to the approximate equivalent of the U.S. population. Finding films to go with the stage show is the job of President-Managing Director Russell V. Downing, who freely...