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...hard-hat type of guy (making $160 a week and enjoying it less) who one day hears a stranger sitting next to him at a bar confess to a murder. This stranger, you see, is a $60,000-a-year advertising exec who has just killed his wayward daughter's junkie-freak boyfriend and has no fears about admitting his crime to the first person he sees...
Today Kathryn runs her Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation from a hotel suite in Pittsburgh, where she prepares radio and TV shows and a busy staff keeps track of finances.* She draws a straight $25,000-a-year salary from the money collected at services. (She sometimes forgets to take up a collection.) Most of the rest-after operating expenses-goes to a variety of charities, especially a number of mission churches of different denominations...
...reassess his abilities and find a job on his own. Thomas Hubbard, president of THinc., raises the question of conflict of interest on the part of the companies that do both outplacement and conventional executive recruiting. "No one knows," he says, "when one company's $45,000-a-year dehiree will be touted by the firm to another company as their 'new $50,000 hotshot.' "Officials of the companies involved reply that they keep the two parts of their business rigidly separate. Dehirees are counseled not to hide the fact that they have been fired; the placement...
...A.F.G.E., which has tripled its membership to 310,000 since 1962 to become one of the fastest-growing affiliates of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., seeks a $6,000-a-year minimum for federal civil servants, compared with $4,125 today. The union is also pressing for the right to bargain for wages, which are now fixed by Congress. Federal workers won the power to negotiate about working conditions, grievance procedures and promotion policies under a 1962 executive order by President Kennedy...
Ready for Welfare. Inflation has further blunted the advances of lower-and middle-grade employees. In some parts of the country where living costs and pay scales are high, workers at the $7,202-a-year G55 level have earned 20% less than their counterparts in private enterprise. "The money I make is so low that I can apply for welfare." says Marvel Paine, a G54 hospital clerk with the Veterans Administration in Tacoma. Many federal workers moonlight; many Washington, D.C., taxi drivers working nights and weekends are Government employees...