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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's printing workers ratified a new contract yesterday in a close vote by the members of the union, a union spokesman, who asked to remain unidentified, said yesterday...
...Gilbert grosses more than $40,000. But the big moneymakers almost always have some kind of cushion. Reeves has, among other odd jobs, a regular Esquire column that guarantees him $50,000 a year; Szulc does books (twelve to date) as well as magazine work; Gilbert has a contract with SPORTS ILLUSTRATED that places a solid floor under his yearly income. Such props are essential. Says Literary Agent Scott Meredith: "There are no writers left who can make a living just by articles...
...Arnold Ray Miller, 54, beleaguered president of the United Mine Workers union; with a mild stroke suffered two days after signing the controversial contract that ended his 5½-month grind of negotiations with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association and brought disgruntled miners back to work last week; in Miami...
...have ridden out a monstrous scandal. He had admitted padding expense accounts and forging names on checks that he cashed, but Columbia had treated him with more than compassion. He repaid the money with interest, and though he resigned in February, he was about to begin work under a contract as an independent producer of films that Columbia would distribute. That contract might pay him at least $1.5 million over the next three years, more than he would have earned if he had remained Columbia's $400,000-a-year president...
...seven years of service as Chevrolet's general manufacturing manager, he was passed over for a vice presidency and was ripe for plucking. He left GM with some misgivings: "It was a tough decision to make." But VW's lure was a reported $1 million, five-year contract, plus the chance to put the world's eighth largest automaker into U.S. manufacturing...