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...automobile culture, the state's highway budget for 1976 was presented last week, and it turned out to contain the lowest outlay for new construction since the 1950s. Road-building crews are to lay only 77 miles of state freeways and expressways, down from an annual aver age of 280 miles over the past eight years. Gasoline taxes that fund the highways are off because of higher gas prices, lower speed limits and less thirsty cars. And inflation boosted highway construction costs in the state by a staggering 60% last year. California, in the unique...
...promised so many programs without raising taxes that she has been dubbed, "spenderella" by aides of her Re-publical oopponant, Congressman Robert Steele, 35. He has picked up some antifeminist support from people who aver that "being Governer is a man's job" but the state of the economy keeps him on the defensive. Ella ahead...
...rules go into effect un changed, companies subject to wage control will no longer be able to aver age the chairman's raise with the book keeper's. They must set up an executive control group" comprising all officers and employee-directors who earn $30,000 or more a year. Increases for that group as a whole cannot average more than 5.5% a year, regard less of what happens to the rank and file; if the president gives himself a bigger increase, he will have to hold down the raises of his vice presidents. Executive wage hikes will...
...considerate of his tenants: "I want to take crime out of prostitution by giving the girls a pleasant, hotel-like atmosphere," he asserts. In fact. Kohls is no pimp. Although "the girls" pay him $22 a day for room and board, he does not share in their earnings (fees aver age between $150 and $200). To ensure the girls' safety. Kohls has installed an alarm button in each room. To make life easier for the girls with children, Kohls plans soon to set up nurseries at each Eros center...
...opponents asked for postponements because of nervous strain. Invariably, Bobby's victims say that they were defeated because they were playing "below strength." "People have been playing me below strength for 15 years," says Fischer scornfully. "There is some strange magnetic influence in Bobby," says Soviet Grand Master Yuri Aver-bakh, "that spiritually wrecks his opponents...