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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressure-cooker meritocracy in which only the ability to make money counts. In particular, Salomon risks millions of its own money buying and reselling bonds and stocks for its own account. Simon was eventually put in charge of Government-and municipal-bond trading. He did well enough to earn a six-figure salary plus a big share in Salomon's profits. His present net worth is estimated to be about $3,000,000, and all of his funds are now in a blind trust managed by Morgan Guaranty...
...flying doctors are paid only $15,000 to $20,000 a year. But they often earn other rewards. A Masai warrior, who suffered a spear wound in the buttock, was so delighted with Wood's ministrations that he made him a blood brother of the tribe...
...Herman Kahn complains: "People are sitting on their papers in the hope that the law will be changed." Except for those donated in a spirit of patriotism or altruism, it seems, many historical documents will remain stuffed in former officials' attics and scrapbooks until those papers can again earn a tax deduction-or until a new law declares that papers produced by officials serving the public belong to the public...
...earn such kudos, Rockefeller has stumped the country in recent weeks as a gravel-voiced Spiro Agnew, bragging about New York's tough new drug law, decrying welfare cheaters, and heaping praise on Republican stalwarts. (In Arizona, he paid effusive tribute to Barry Goldwater. Apparently, ambition heals all wounds...
Cecil Rhodes is causing Sanders more trouble. Six ft. eight in. captain Tony Jenkins, half of Sanders's big man tandem up front, will be in the Midwest tonight trying to earn one of Mr. Rhodes's recently-become-controversial scholarships. Harvard managed to change the Brown game from Saturday to Sunday night so Jenkins can be around to guard the Bruins' stringbean leaper Phil Brown. The B.C. contest couldn't be rescheduled and the Eagles' sophomore star Bob Carrington should be able to skyrocket his 20-points-a-game average...