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...director, Miss Switzer will draw the same $26,000 annual salary as before, though she will now hold down the biggest administrative job of any woman in government. At a time when the whole philosophy of welfare is undergoing thorough reassessment, she is the first to admit the shortcomings of the present system. The trouble with most welfare programs, she admits, "is that it is easier to support people on relief than to come to grips with the problems that put them there." Agreeing with critics who charge that welfare programs put a "premium on not working, rather than working...
...pitchers can achieve by wetting the ball. And for a while, most pitchers did seem to abide by the edict. But charity has its limits. Experts estimate that today, anywhere from 25% to 50% of all big-league pitchers throw the spitter, and that number includes many of the biggest names in the game...
Perilous Pitch. West Coast, operating primarily in the Northwest, earned a handsome $836,000 on revenues of $18 million last year despite a number of low-profit, short-hop routes and a 20-plane fleet burdened by eight aging DC-3s. One of its biggest assets is its president and 30% owner, Nick Bez, 72, long a kingpin of the Democratic Party in Washington State. Bez will be chairman of the new line...
...That changes the ballgame!" cried one Allis-Chalmers executive. And there, at least by Ling's calculations, it should have ended. Even Beauchamp (pronounced beach 'em) E. Smith, the Allis-Chalmers director with the biggest block of shares (21,560), pronounced the new offer "far, far more interesting." There was little likelihood that the company would find a savior with anything like LTV's bankroll (furnished by a group of banks headed by the Bank of America) and willing to offer a better price. The company, L-T-V figured, was boxed in and liable...
...history and legend. In existence as an independent nation for only 21 years, the Philippine Republic is still pushing back its own frontiers, and it has a carrier that is playing much the same part as the U.S. pioneers. It is Lusteveco (short for Luzon Stevedoring Co.), the biggest and fastest-growing commercial cargo handler in transportation-shy Southeast Asia...