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...Indiana State with an equally high reputation for the shots he did not take, preferring to give up the ball with deft passes to open teammates. Auerbach made Bird the Celtics' No. 1 draft choice after his junior year. The wait, and Bird's reported $650,000-a-year salary, have proved worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Remembrance of Things Past | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

Today, the Princeton Third World Center is alive and well, operating on a $30,000-a-year budget--excluding salaries--provided by the university, Deborah L. Stapleton, director of the center, said yesterday...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Center of Controversy | 4/12/1980 | See Source »

...ready to go back to playing the role of supportive hostess in some overseas post. Says an American officer in the Middle East: "Twenty years ago, a wife loyally followed her husband around the world. Today she argues, 'Why should I give up my $30,000-a-year job to go Live in Upper Volta?' " To be sure, the State Department and individual embassies have relaxed the rules by allowing diplomats' wives to work at secretarial and "family liaison" jobs in the missions; obviously, this kind of employment does not appeal to a woman with a career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: No Fun on a Short Leash | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...well as the Republican nomination. A Washington attorney, Sears, 39, tried to broaden Reagan's appeal, and the candidate appeared to go along. Reagan admitted that he was troubled by his image in the East as a "Neanderthal reactionary." He almost seemed in awe of his $65,000-a-year subordinate as he listened deferentially to Sears' monologues on issues and tactics. Often when Reagan arrived at a meeting of aides, he asked: "Where's John? There are some things I want to check with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: He Was the Cruiser | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...crisis began when the Chicago Fire Fighters Union became locked in an angry, name-calling feud with strong-willed Mayor Jane Byrne. Richard Daley, her predecessor, had kept the firemen content by raising their pay without a contract until the average $22,300-a-year salary was among the highest paid to the nation's firemen. But Byrne resisted demands for a contract that would assign a six-man team to each fire truck (up from the current four or five men), cover supervisors, and include the right to strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Burning Threat | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

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