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...Four months ago, Gray hired Alejandro Orfila, the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States and former Argentine Ambassador to the U.S., at $25,000 a month. At the time Orfila, who is an accomplished Washington socializer, was still working for the O.A.S. and collecting his $88,000-a-year salary. He continued working as both a diplomat and a member of Gray & Co. until his resignation from the O.A.S. on March 31. Last winter, a black limousine with diplomatic plates that read "OAS 8" was often seen idling outside the Power House, while Orfila worked within. Although Orfila...
...dozen other people, eight of whom were working for him at the time. The city's department of investigation declared that Alvarado had "demonstrated a disturbing disregard for many rules governing professional and personal conduct." Last week the board of education suspended the chancellor from his $95,000-a-year job pending an administrative hearing...
...Crosby left his $200,000-a-year job at ITT to start his own firm, which now has more than 100 employees and projected revenues of $22 million for 1984. One of his early clients was Mostek, a Texas-based microchip maker. The firm came to Crosby after it started losing its market to Japanese electronics firms because they were turning out superior chips. Mostek sent 115 of its managers to Crosby seminars and launched a campaign exhorting workers to "Do It Right the First Time." Result: Mostek cut costs by some $40 million annually. Says Quality Director Robert Donnelly...
...both London and New York.) Meantime, he is happy to see the three auditoriums in the National complex filled to 80% of capacity. "I've always been a businessman as well as trying to be an artist. And I do love running things." With his $71,000-a-year contract at the National renewed for five years, Sir Peter seems destined to remain a lively British monument. Just like Nelson's Column. -By Richard Corliss. Reported by Mary Cronin/London
...most undergraduates at elite Smith College in Northampton, Mass., the road to one of the Seven Sisters has been smooth and untroubled. Despite the considerable work load there is always the comfortable feeling that the $8,430-a-year tuition bill will be met. But Gilda Palano is different. For a start, she is 48, and when she graduates next year with a B.A. in anthropology and sociology she will have overcome more obstacles than most of the young women around her will face in a lifetime...