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...career basis means accepting a desert life, for an employee cannot hope to rotate from a job in a distant field to one in the home office; the home office is here. The turnover among American employees runs fairly high. Most join up in hopes of making a cushion: freedom from U.S. income tax, cost-of-living differentials and salaries about 25% above stateside rates for equivalent jobs are the lures. A surprising number intend to stay for a couple of contracts (two years each), save up enough to buy a motel back home. But the limited consolations of loneliness...
...flickering neon of The Loop; cigar smoke hangs like a grey curtain of decency between the elbow benders and the ripe, oil-painted nudes behind the bar. Cluttered with old-fashioned sporting prints and spittoons, Bensinger's is a comfortable clubhouse for pool sharks, poker players, three-cushion wizards, and foul-air fiends of every variety...
...stowaway. Unlike most stowaways, he soon dug first-class passage money from his pocket. He also owned up to the name of Gerhart Eisler. For unwittingly aiding in the escape of a key Communist agent, badly wanted in the U.S., Captain Cwiklinski got involved in a nasty, three-cushion carom on the international billiard table...
...Nine. The Democratic Party, therefore, stands to take a one-seat cushion (44 seats to 43) into the nine remaining Senate races. To gain a tie situation (in which Vice President Nixon's vote would give Republicans control of the Senate), the G.O.P. must win in five of these crucial contests...
...same direction all at once. In the future, different industries may have their individual ups and downs, but built-in props (e.g., pension plans, long-term management planning and investment, social security and an ever-increasing need for hospitals, highways and other public works) give the economy a cushion such as no nation has ever had before. Says Slichter: "The old-fashioned business cycle is being destroyed...