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Regan, who will lose about $40,000 from his own $240,000 salary-and-bonus package, is merely acting out Wall Street's growing bearishness about the prospects of making ends meet. In the first five months of 1973, U.S. brokerage houses lost a total of $153 million, and a number have reduced executive salaries. No fewer than 68 firms are on the New York Stock Exchange's "warning list" because they are operating at a loss. For this year's first quarter Merrill Lynch's revenues were down 8%, and profits 53%; its stock...
From T.S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett to Dorothy Parker and E.B. White, from I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby-with some jazzy pianistics as a bonus-to Me and Bobbie McGee. This number, rendered in Williamson's supple and sensitive baritone, is affecting enough to supply an added paragraph to the vocabulary of soul...
...their sites. They want to get away from home, but they trundle so much paraphernalia, from kitchen appliances to bicycles, that life on the road is not really too different. They want the atmosphere of camping out with the comforts of living in-plus fancy distractions as a bonus. It is a peculiarly American yen, and, in the American manner, it is being satisfied...
...Jean King, a longtime advocate of larger purses for women, considered trying to organize the women players to hold out for equal prizes (the men share $70,500 at Wimbledon, v. $50,500 for the women). That idea fizzled, however. Rather than equal pay, the women will receive a bonus of attention. The men's competition may be crippled, but for the first time this year, the Big Four of women's tennis-Australia's Margaret Court and Evonne Goolagong and the U.S.'s King and Chris Evert will be making a joint appearance. They could...
...retirement of Assistant Director Dwight Dalby a few months ago, this rush for the exit will leave vacant four of the 13 top posts in the bureau. By a quirk of the FBI retirement law, the three leaving next month will collect an extra cost-of-living retirement bonus, but that is not the main reason for their quitting...