Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Busting Budgets. The unions have won spectacular wage gains in recent years. Among the higher top-base annual salaries, which are reached after varying years of service and without promotion: $18,000 for firemen and policemen in Chicago, $16,681 for teachers in Detroit with only a bachelor's degree, and $15,731 for sanitation men in New York. Naturally, people who earn promotions get more than that. Unions have also won pensions that range from generous to excessive and threaten to bust many a budget in the future. In New York, for example, sanitation men hired since...
...Otto Kerner on charges of bribery, tax evasion and mail fraud, the conviction of six Chicago aldermen on charges of mail fraud, conspiracy and bribery, and the successful prosecution of Mayor Richard Daley's press secretary on charges of mail fraud. A strapping (6 ft. 6 in.) blond bachelor, 39, Thompson has long seemed a natural for public office, and last week, on the day after he resigned as U.S. Attorney, he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois...
...collector of customs; student at Oxford; a popular lecturer at Edinburgh University; tutor to the young Duke of Buccleuch; full professor of logic and then of moral philosophy at Glasgow; and author in 1759 of a philosophical treatise, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. A bachelor, Smith relied on his mother and a maiden cousin to keep house; if any love affairs ever distracted him from his studies, they have gone unrecorded. "I am a beau in nothing but my books," he once remarked, while showing off his 3,000-volume library to a friend...
Some of the enlisted men are still barracked in cramped, 20-year-old, dormitory-style metal quonset huts. But there are growing numbers of new three-story "super hooches," which bunk only three men to a room. BOQS, or Bachelor Officer Quarters, bear whimsical names like "Teahouse of the Anxious Moose"-moose being a corruption of the Japanese musume or girl. A recreation center has been developed to accompany the "spartan training" facility on Cheju Island, off the southern coast of South Korea; it offers sailing, scuba diving and duck and pheasant shooting. The division has even sponsored occasional...
Debbie Reynolds was the madcap of the '50s, a slip of a colleen with a heart-shaped face. Her daughter Carrie Fisher, 18, is the madcap of the '70s, a dourly funny sophisticate. Debbie's big hit movie was the innocuous Tammy and the Bachelor, in which she played a professional teen-age virgin. Carrie has a hit flick too: Warren Beatty's Beverly Hills satire Shampoo. She also played a teen-ager-a nymphet who traps Beatty into...