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...judge's fight for his $89,500-a-year job will now be decided in the Senate, where it will take a two-thirds vote to oust him. The politically astute Hastings will be arguing the case of his career. Already he is toning down his charges of racism and stressing instead his assertion of innocence and the issue of fairness. He may try to convince the Senators of his claim that the proceedings smack of double jeopardy. He can also be expected to underline the fact that the last federal judge to be removed by the Senate, Harry Claiborne...
...best remembered for a speech in 1950 urging that America drop an atom bomb on North Korea unless its troops retreated north of the 38th parallel. Bentsen became one of the youngest members ever to leave the House voluntarily. At 33, complaining ! that the $12,500-a-year salary was not enough to raise three children on, Bentsen returned to Texas to start a life-insurance company with a family stake of $5 million. He eventually built a corporate empire with holdings ranging from banking to real estate that by 1970 was estimated to be worth $25 million...
Horner now holds a full-time, $82,000-a-year post as the head of Radcliffe and can look back on a host of achievements that, if not academic, have changed the history of the 109-year-old institution. And today she says that her erstwhile job description for the office of Radcliffe president was "a naive assumption...
...caper took a month to plan, and just 64 minutes to execute. On Friday, May 13 -- a date chosen in a spirit of mischief -- an $18,000-a-year clerk at First National Bank of Chicago set in motion a simple scheme that nearly bilked his employer out of $68.7 million. Aided by a gang of accomplices and his knowledge of a few secret codes, Gabriel Taylor, 27, electronically transferred the money from accounts belonging to Merrill Lynch, United Airlines and Brown-Forman distillers to accounts that some of the conspirators had set up under assumed names at two banks...
...presbytery had ordered Swaggart to refrain from preaching for a full year after he acknowledged "moral failure" last February. Although church officials and Swaggart have not revealed the details, a prostitute claims Swaggart paid her to pose nude for him. Swaggart had agreed to a three-month suspension but refused to comply with the one-year ban. Such a long absence, he feared, would cripple fund raising for his Bible College and $140 million- a-year Worldwide Ministries. Swaggart said last week that he still plans to honor the original three-month suspension and not return to the pulpit until...