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Executive Pay. Responding to Carter's call, several companies volunteered to hold pay raises of high executives to 5% or less this year. General Motors and Time Inc. joined the list. So did A T & T, after its chairman, John deButts, got a wheedling phone call from Bob Strauss, who typically asks business leaders, "What can you put in the pot?" Ford, R.C.A., Westinghouse and some other companies were studying the idea. Meanwhile, the House Appropriations Committee voted to deny scheduled pay increases this year to some 16,000 federal executives earning more than...
...capture were likely to try again, like the legendary Estonian Georgi Tenno. Between his ultimately unsuccessful breakouts, prisoners would wonderingly ask Tenno, "What do you expect to find on the outside?" His reply: "Freedom, of course! A whole day in the taiga without chains-that's what I call freedom...
...phone rings. An anonymous male is upset by his premature ejaculations. The woman who answers the call flips through her "quickie book," a loose-leaf binder rilled with sexual information, and makes some suggestions. On the wall above her desk hang huge diagrams of male and female genitalia. The phone rings again. "My husband wants oral sex," a woman asks nervously...
Both New York and San Francisco hot lines advertise their services on bus or subway posters and receive about 1,000 calls a month. In New York, about 70% of the callers are male; in San Francisco, 60%. But the number of females is increasing. Says Easton: "Men used to call to ask why their wives couldn't have orgasms. Now the women call." In both cities voyeurs ring in occasionally with kinky requests, but for most people the sex hot line is no Dial-a-Joke...
John Mayan '53 noted that the saddest change in 25 years is the fact that it is no longer safe to walk around Cambridge. Barely two hours after his statement, a mass of police cars arrived at Plympton St. across from Quincy House after receiving a call that two people were fighting in the street. Police said yesterday a woman injured her male friend with a knife. Quincy House residents also identified the man as the suspicious person they had reported to the police earlier...