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Further economies still can be effected throughout the entire H.A.A. For example, sweatshirts, baseballs, and other pieces of equipment often are "lost" by players during the season. Airline transportation to rained-out baseball games is an avoidable expense. Two encouraging moves in this direction were the across-the-board slash in all teams' budgets last June and reports written this year by varsity captains suggesting new economies...
...Holding Out." The issues-and causes-were as complex as the fuel-flow system of a new 707 jet. Eastern's mechanics, like those at T.W.A., originally wanted a whacking 49? an hour across-the-board boost (present wage: $2.51). Both lines offered 41? an hour over three years, or what the union won after a 37-day strike against Capital Airlines last month. Since then. National Airlines (see below) has signed for 44? an hour, to match Capital's hourly wage...
...Representatives now stands at 13 Democrats to 17 Republicans from 30 districts carefully gerrymandered by a state legislature long under G.O.P. control. But after the 1960 census, California will probably rate 37 House seats (v. 40 for New York). If Pat Brown can lead his party to an across-the-board sweep this year and come even close to maintaining his pace while in office, then a Democratic state legislature will control the post-census redistricting in 1961. Already Democratic planners have figured out how to gerrymander for 22 shoo-in Democratic districts against 15 Republican possibles...
...citizens' committees. Observers felt that the recession weighed only lightly in the defeat. Out of several such leeway referendums in Utah this year, only one has succeeded; yet all bond issues for new school buildings have passed. The difference: much of the leeway money would go to across-the-board teachers' pay raises. A study on merit pay has poked along for four years, but teachers have been consistently cool to the idea of raises given according to ability. Said one disgusted citizen last week: "Sure a good career teacher is worth more money. And a science teacher...
...time is not ripe for a tax cut, said the council's antirecession committee, headed by Theodore V. Houser, chairman of Sears, Roebuck; but a cut may be needed if the economy continues to decline. In that case, the group favored an across-the-board slash in personal income tax rates; it did not go on record about corporate or excise taxes...