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...last week offered to plead no contest to charges that they had given illegal kickbacks to travel agents. Last week as well, financially straitened W.T. Grant Co. filed civil fraud charges in New York federal court against three of its executives -including John A. Christensen, a $72,000-a-year vice president-alleging that they had accepted bribes from an Atlanta-based real estate developer to lease inferior sites for shopping centers at inflated rates. According to the complaint, the kickbacks exceeded $100,000, and ranged from trips to Acapulco to a $33,000 stable built on Christensen...
Parent has been taking good care of himself ever since. His lawyer is presently renegotiating his current $ 150,000-a-year, five-year contract with the Flyers for a deal that could provide financial security for life. Meanwhile Parent, Carol and their three young children are already living well with a five-bedroom $95,000 colonial house in suburban Cherry Hill, N.J., and a comfortable four-bedroom rented house on the Atlantic shore at Wildwood, N.J., where the Parents keep a 33-ft. Egg Harbor boat that he uses for deep-sea fishing. When he is not angling, Parent...
Discouragement and frustration pursue even the best-bankrolled members. A British Airways employee for 15 years, Ed Maynes lost his $30,000-a-year New York sales manager's job in December. "I know I am not going to be destitute," says Maynes, who has a sizable severance check and his wife's $14,000-a-year salary to cushion his fall. But the 150 resumes he has sent out-125 of them to airlines-have evoked no favorable responses so far. "To be 50 years of age and looking for a job," he admits, "is a bitter...
...area's white-collar residents are being laid off at levels not seen since the 1930s; 20,000 have been sidelined at Chrysler alone. Charles Beaudet, 52, a $22,000-a-year sculptural designer for Chrysler, was furloughed just before Christmas. He supports his wife and five children on his SUB checks, but he has cut out the monthly case of wine, the symphony concerts and other civilized frills. Beaudet worries that his self-respect is going too. "It hurts," he says, describing the experience of standing in an unemployment line. "It's demoralizing." Bankruptcy declarations rose...
...financial fireworks were set off three weeks ago when an arbitration panel ruled that Hunter, who won 25 games and the Cy Young Award in 1974, was a free agent. The reason: A's Owner Charles O. Finley had defaulted on part of Hunter's $100,000-a-year contract. Instantly, Hunter's home town of Hertford, N.C., became the unlikely mecca for owners eager to place their bids. By early last week Hunter's lawyers had weighed the 24 offers and picked four top prospects: San Diego, Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles...