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...years, Davidson, with only 1,000 students, became a big, nationally ranked powerhouse. In 1969, after the Wildcats finished No. 3 in the U.S., grateful Davidson alumni presented Driesell with a new Thunderbird. A few weeks later he drove off to College Park, Md., and a new $25,000-a-year coaching...
...will the escalation stop there. Under the new rules. Social Security benefits-and deductions-will rise as much as 3% annually in 1975 and in future years along with increases in the cost of living. Assuming inflation proceeds at the same pace as in recent years, a $15,000-a-year worker could see his Social Security payments rise from $468 last year...
...majority party and then so mishandled it that the election became a referendum less on issues and ideologies than on the personal competence of the two men. Issues of economic and social justice became lost in a tangle of doubts about McGovern himself. First he proposed a $1,000-a-year guarantee for every American, only to revise the suggestion later. Then came the Eagleton affair. McGovern never could shake the charge, however unfair, that he was the candidate of "amnesty, acid and abortion." He was, too many voters believed, an indecisive radical ? the worst kind...
David J. Mahoney, the ebullient, $350,000-a-year chief executive of Norton Simon Inc., looks like a movie hero, talks like a salesman in a hurry and is willing to go out on a limb. At the start of each of the past three years, Mahoney predicted that the earnings of the widely diversified food, drink and publishing company would increase by at least 15%. He has hit the mark every time. Now, bent on building N.S.I, into a consumer-products giant that would equal Procter & Gamble and Unilever, Mahoney has begun a major drive for acquisitions...
...point in a long and curious political journey. He won national attention four years ago as the author of the report that blamed "police riots" for a share of the disorders surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Then the tall, tanned lawyer, now 50, quit his $100,000-a-year job at Montgomery Ward vowing to overturn both the G.O.P. organization downstate and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine in Cook County. After he had hiked in denims 1,197 miles across Illinois, talking up his giant-killer theme, Walker edged out Daley's candidate...