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...century." In the effort, he stirred considerable acrimony among board members last November by going over their heads and bravely calling for an end to fixed commission rates on large trades. Last week, to no one's great surprise, Haack said that he will quit his $125,000-a-year job when his five-year term ends next July...
...York Times quoted U.S. "security experts" as saying that Vladimir P. Pavlichenko, 48, director of external relations in the United Nations Office of Public Information, was a veteran KGB man whose special assignment is to cultivate U.S. scientists. Pavlichenko called the story "slanderous and false." Though his $27,000-a-year job was renewed last week, there was speculation that he would eventually return to Moscow on one pretext or another...
...vanguard of this new attack is a national coalition of 60 lawyers and 700 scientists called the Environmental Defense Fund. Financed mainly by $10-a-year dues from 25,000 supporters, E.D.F. operates out of East Setauket, N.Y., and has branches in Washington, D.C., and Berkeley, Calif. Its philosophy is summarized by William Butler, a lawyer in the Washington office: "Environmentalists have cried wolf too often. We don't make a legal move unless scientists are sure of their ground...
...a-Year Hireling...
...said, 'Mr. Finley, that nice car is great. But I don't dress like a man who drives a Cadillac.' So I gave him a check for $1,000 for a new wardrobe." Blue and Finley are both aware of the game they are playing. As a $13,000-a-year hireling, Vida is clearly the biggest bargain in baseball. And come contract-negotiating time next year, the bidding could possibly start...