Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olympics; and intellectuals such as Antoine Blondin, a novelist who won the Prix Interallié in 1959 and now writes a regular column of slangy, pun-filled and often sarcastic observations. Reporters must scrape along on salaries of $300 to $350 a month, and even top editors earn only $800 to $1,000; yet many of them quit higher-paying jobs on other papers to join L'Équipe. Why? "Because," explains Grand Prix Racing Reporter Johnny Rives, "I do the kind of reporting and writing I love to do. My articles get published pretty much as I write...
...during the witching hours. From 11:30 p.m. until 5:30 a.m. five days a week (and until 7:30 a.m. the sixth), he is the Manhattan-based disk jockey of CBS's Music 'til Dawn, sponsored by American. Hall's silky phrasing and boudoir baritone earn him $40,500 a year, are emulated (on producer's orders) by the eight other Music 'til Dawn deejays...
...teaching capacity. The huge University of Texas (enrollment: 24,778) is the major partner in 60 consortiums, including one that provides for student and faculty exchange with its tiny neighbor, Huston-Tillotson College (615 students). The University of Pennsylvania opens its doors to students from eleven smaller colleges; they earn a Penn engineering degree along with the B.A. from their own schools in a five-year plan...
...biggest customer, Canada buys 25% of American exports; it sells the U.S. 70% of its exports. Canada might export even more, but many of its tariff-protected industries remain inefficient by U.S. standards, pay their employees less than similar U.S. workmen earn, and suffer a worrisome brain drain to the south...
Last week, by strange coincidence, the two met again in Geneva, N.Y. During the winter, the Medical Women's International Association had picked its president, Pediatrician Fe del Mundo, to receive its Elizabeth Blackwell award, named for the first woman to earn an M.D. degree in the U.S. The scene for the ceremony was the Geneva campus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, for it was in Geneva in 1849 that Elizabeth Blackwell became a doctor...