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...calls Man-Tan "instant Mau Mau," and sometimes he lapses into corn, but mainly he tells stories with a sharp point. He says that white people often wonder how colored people, who have such low-paying jobs, can afford to own Cadillacs. Well, first there is that $500-a-year saving on the country club, another $1,500 a year on the Florida vacation-and so on into the driver's seat of a Cadillac...
...role, or roles, Johnson will retain and pick up more titles and perquisites than a Bourbon king. He will continue as presiding officer over the Senate Democratic caucuses and director of party strategy-a job traditionally held by the majority leader, with an added $40,000-a-year payroll for office help. He was surprised and right grieved to learn that 17 Senators voted against this proposal in the Democratic caucus, because they thought it was an executive invasion of the legislative branch...
...author of last year's bestselling Eat Well and Stay Well. From his birch-paneled office in the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, under the university's football stadium in Minneapolis ("We get a rumble on every touchdown"), blocky, grey-haired Dr. Keys directs an ambitious, $200,000-a-year experiment on diet, which spans three continents and seven nations and is still growing. Pursuing it, he has logged 500,000 miles, suffered indescribable digestive indignities, and meticulously collected physiological data on the health and eating habits of 10,000 individuals, from Bantu tribesmen to Italian contadini...
...Deal. Since F.D.R.'s day, Weaver has been a teacher and writer (The Negro Ghetto, Negro Labor: a National Problem}, a highly regarded housing expert, and a spokesman on civil rights problems (he is board chairman of the N.A.A.C.P.). Kennedy plucked him from his $22,500-a-year job with New York City's Housing and Redevelopment Board to give him the highest federal post ever held by a U.S. Negro...
Rebel group's candidate, former Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman James M. Landis, was rejected by Sayen-controlled union directors, who refused to alter bylaws so that nonpilot could run for the $38,000-a-year...