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...dazzle of campaigning, particularly the opportunities to meet show-business stars, drink a lot of beer and raise some hell during his off-hours. He even envisioned a political future of his own some day. Since he went to work for the Democratic National Committee as a $26,500-a-year staff member, Chip has been an exuberant fund raiser and crowd catcher for the party...
Wolfe and his nine-member staff work on a meager $148,000-a-year budget in a cramped and rundown Washington office. On the door is a sign in Latin: POPULUS IAMDUDUM DEFUTATUS EST (The people have been getting screwed long enough). Putting in ten-hour days, Wolfe is currently involved in a study of surgeons' fees in Washington, D.C., a stepped-up antismoking campaign, and warnings on estrogen...
...House also approves a $250-a-year tuition tax credit proposal, the tax bill will face almost sure veto from the White House. Presidential press secretary Jody Powell said that people making $50,000 or more a year would receive one-fourth of the reductions under the combined bills...
...sales. Gerald Ford had his WIN (Whip Inflation Now) crusade. Now comes the Carter Administration's entry in the P.R. war against rising prices: a 16-page booklet titled A Consumer's Shopping List of Inflation Fighting Ideas. The guide's producer, Esther Peterson, 71, the feisty $51,000-a-year head of the Office of Consumer Affairs, says that the idea is "to help you cope" and to show people how to "stretch their food, housing, energy and health care dollars." Some of Peterson's advice for the inflation-worn...
...principal of Upper Merion High School in suburban Philadelphia and, more recently, a $30,000-a-year coordinator of school services, Jay Smith, 50, carved a name for himself as a tough administrator. An Army Reserve colonel, he was known as a no-nonsense expert on school discipline who once advocated expelling 60 "dangerous" students because of their "criminalistic" behavior...