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...also to win valuable allies against congressional critics, the Postal Service in 1973 gave the seven postal unions an overly generous settlement: an increase that amounted to 23% in wages and benefits over two years. Postal employees now earn considerably more than comparable Government workers; a beginning postal clerk, for example, makes $10,898, while a Government clerk in a roughly similar area starts at $8,500. Most remarkably, if postal workers were paid at the same rate as Government employees, there would be no postal deficit at all this year. Moreover, postal employees have also written into their...
...advertising, overshadowed by Nashville and Jaws, slipping on the projector as Silent Night, Evil Night slid off, making way this week for Aloha, Bobby and Rose. Except for a last ditch run at the Charles, unmentioned in the newspapers. Arthur Penn's new movie came and went like a clerk and his briefcase on the subway...
...sentenced to state prison at Auburn, N.Y., for killing a desk clerk during an armed robbery of a Manhattan hotel. "I didn't get any help in prison for 20 years, until I met Dan Welty," says Brown. Welty, a prison chaplain who also does psychotherapy, managed to get Brown released after he had served 23½ years. Brown, 47, is now married, has gone through extensive psychotherapy and is a paid official of the Fortune Society, an organization of ex-offenders. Although he was able to profit from meeting Welty, Brown knows that such encounters are rare. "Treatment...
...Assignment: Assertion" [May 19], Instructors Phelps and Austin tell their students to apply assertiveness by requesting the demonstration of a product in a department store and then walking away without buying. Let us assume that the store clerk just happens to be a student of the same philosophy. Perhaps the lesson should be revised to include a dash of karate...
...with a B.A. in humanities last December. She wanted to go to graduate school, but she had already borrowed money to finance her way through college and had to get a job so that she could begin paying her debt. The only employment she could find was as a clerk in a St. Paul dress shop. Last week, depressed by her work and unable to land a better job, she quit, gave up her apartment and moved in with relatives. "I'm not sure what I'm going to do," she says. "Sometimes I find myself virtually paralyzed...