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When Johnson, trained at the Barbados Advocate,finally found work as a printer, it was at the George H. Ellis Co. "At first, I got $25 a week, and eventually that got raised to $40. Everybody said I was very successful, so I was walking around with my chest puffed out, so to speak," he said...
While Buchanan is scrambling to raise a modest war chest of $200,000. Hart has had no trouble collecting $600,000 for his campaign. Says he: "I don't feel vulnerable...
...choice between personalities. Specter has hired Campaign Consultant David Garth, who has put together a series of TV ads that portray the ex-D.A. as a man who would serve all Pennsylvanians, from the poor in Philadelphia to the steelworkers in Pittsburgh. Specter has also amassed a war chest of $1 million, including $525,000 from state and national Republican committees. Flaherty, whose previous campaigns were managed by his wife, has taken elocution lessons from a college debate coach and hired Washington Pollster Peter Hart, who advised him to stress his record as mayor, particularly when campaigning in Philadelphia...
...credentials shine like the medals on a war hero's chest. He graduated from Harvard with honors and from Yale Law School. Before he was 30 he became an assistant to McGeorge Bundy, who was National Security Adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and then was named chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Thus when Jimmy Carter in 1977 appointed Clifford L. Alexander, now 47, the Army's first black Secretary, he seemed well suited for the job, even though his only previous military experience was six months as a private...
Another strategy is to study groups of people who have been exposed to specific chemicals, either on the job or in accidents. By this means, scientists have established some cause-and-effect links-for example, between prolonged inhalation of asbestos particles and mesothelioma (cancer of the lining of the chest or abdomen). But often the results of such epidemiological studies are not entirely convincing. The problem: scientists must trace effect back to probable cause ratherthan identifying cause and looking for effects. Says Dr. Irving Selikoff, of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center, who established the asbestos-cancer connection...