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...just keeping faculty members content. Like the people in Mass Hall, he spends a lot of his time worrying about how to cut down on the soaring costs of running a college education. Rosovsky and his predecessor, John T. Dunlop, have been steadily raising tuition fees at a $200-a-year clip, and there's no apparent end in sight to the increases...
...a-year law partner and the seigneur of a posh Fifth Avenue apartment, Nixon was soon jetting all over the world, touching base with statesmen and politicians. Most important, speech-making and fund-raising favors for G.O.P. candidates and committeemen from Florida to California won him liens on votes to be cast at future nominating conventions...
...free the U.S. from dependence on foreign oil. A Princeton-trained administrator with a Ph.D. in economics and finance from New York University, Sawhill has pledged a blueprint for "Project Independence" by Nov. 1. To go to Washington he took a $60,000 pay cut from his $100,000-a-year vice presidency at Commercial Credit...
...persistent feeling among blacks that their fragile prosperity might blow away with ill economic winds. When times are bad, blacks are often the first to lose their jobs -though there have been no noticeable layoffs of black skilled workers during the current recession. Says a $35,000-a-year urban planning executive in Detroit: "We constantly live with the paranoia that we'll get sick or fired. I'm constantly aware of the fact that if I were out of work for six months, I'd be on the skids...
...newsman standing in front of a burning building talking about the number of firemen being treated for smoke inhalation," he says. Thirty-year-old Rivera has now been in the news business exactly three years and eight months as a reporter for New York City's WABC Eyewitness News. During that time, the former Brooklyn street-gang leader, merchant seaman, dry-goods salesman and poverty lawyer has won five Emmys, 74 other awards, and a $100,000-a-year salary. He has just started his own network show, Good-Night, America, a 90-minute magazine-format mixture of filmed...