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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jobs to the workers. Last spring, the University changed a long-standing policy of offering unemployment benefits to workers during the three-month summer layoff period. Instead, the University began to offer its employees temporary jobs to tide them over the summer months. On the surface, the change might appear to be generous attempt to offer workers full summer salaries instead of the lesser compensation of unemployment benefits...
...that they will some day, somehow, strike it rich. They share a pleasurable and innocuous fantasy, akin to pubertal pinings or the hankering of grown men-and women-to sail around the world, learn the Hustle or inhabit the White House. The reality of American life in 1977 might appear to make daydreams of wealth more chimerical than ever in the nation's history. Indeed, in an age of brutal taxation, constricted opportunity and entangling laws, most dreamers of wealth concede that Mars or Margaux might be more attainable than megabucks...
...system seems as bizarre as that of show biz. Sums paid the big stars appear surreal when compared with other salaries. But the trouble is, such comparisons are specious. For in reimbursing a star, whether of stage, screen or playing field, the entertainment industry is not really paying an employee so much as making a capital appropriation. It is not by chance that in show biz a popular figure is called a hot "property." The star actually is the product to be sold. That the price of such properties has soared is not surprising in a personality-craving society...
Margaret Trudeau was ready; ABC-TV was willing. So the aspiring photojournalist, newly separated from Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is scheduled to appear this Wednesday on the network's Good Morning, America show to display her camerawork. Margaret is casting about for employment in Manhattan; her Good Morning appearance will be a one-time affair-at least for the time being. To hire her regularly, ABC would have to prove that Margaret's talents are unique and that she is not taking a job from an American...
...brilliant literary career while earning his living by teaching English and tennis. But he also supplemented his income as a movie extra and even wrote a film scenario titled The Love of a Dwarf. The unproduced script became the short story The Potato Elf, his first work to appear in the U.S. (Esquire, 1939). Nabokov's literary combativeness has been well chronicled, but he has also been a man who would not sit on his hands if personal honor was offended. He once punched a tipsy German who had insulted the writer's wife Vera...