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HARPER'S MAGAZINE PUBLISHED the response of Washington State Representative Marc Boldt to a letter from a constituent asking him to fight to preserve funding for the local family-education center. "If your situation is subject to so much financial instability, then why did you have three children?" he wrote back, expressing the concern of taxpayers. "Why is your husband in a line of work that subjects him to 'frequent layoffs'? Why, in the face of your husband's ability to parent as a result of his frequent layoffs, are you refusing to work outside the home? Why should...
...youngster growing up in the 1870s, Appleton was probably a pretty interesting place. "Wisconsin had so many circuses back then," observes Oscar Boldt, president of the Boldt Holding Corp., "and when they unloaded the elephants, there was excitement, real excitement, the sort of excitement you could feed off for months." Today some kids in Appleton still feed off the excitement evoked by the name Houdini. Thirteen-year-old Bill Brehm, an aspiring magician, is one of them. "I'd like to know how he did some of his tricks," confides Brehm, who has started practicing Houdini-inspired handcuff escapes. "Like...
...histories, represented this season by a capable but rather specialized volume, Nazi Victory: Crete 1941. And of course, one genuine clunker, priced at $6.95, from Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. Called Hitler's Last Days, it is the brief but mesmerizingly dull memoir of a minor staff officer named Gerhard Boldt, who, as it turns out, constructs Hitler's very last days from already published sources-since he was not there...
Treble Refunds. Even so, the substantial spurts in living costs during earlier months have created a rising feeling of frustration among the nation's workers. At Congressional Joint Economic Committee hearings last week, Pay Board Chairman George Boldt boasted that wage increases allowed by the board have averaged only 4.3% since Phase II started in November. Committee Chairman William Proxmire* observed that "wages are being controlled more effectively than prices...
Meanwhile, Judge George Boldt's Pay Board thumbed down a 20.9% first-year raise for West Coast longshoremen. The board voted instead to allow a 14.9% increase, generous by almost any standard. The move represented the first time that the board had refused any sizable demand from a union with the clout to inflict serious damage on the economy by striking. The board did reduce an aerospace workers' contract increase from 12% to 8% earlier this year, but that industry was already so weak that the workers were not likely to risk walking...