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...employer would be required to set up a pension plan. Many blue-collar workers take their first jobs at 16 but would not have to be included in pension plans until they are 25 (though they must then be given credit for three years' vesting). Karen W. Ferguson, a Washington attorney and ally of Ralph Nader, complains that not requiring full vesting for ten or 15 years is unfair, given the high mobility of the U.S. labor force: "An employee fortunate enough to stay under a single pension plan throughout his work life will always be better off than...
...centuries of American politics, there have been only three women Governors, and all three-Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson of Texas and Lurleen Wallace of Alabama-followed in their husbands' footsteps. Congresswoman Ella Grasso, 55, of Windsor Locks, Conn., is not accustomed to following in anyone's footsteps; her husband of 32 years is a retired school principal, and the toehold she won in the statehouse in Hartford was strictly her own achievement...
...said, "The long-delayed implementation of the decision, the continuing hostility of the society to its implementation, and the less-than-impressive statistics attributed to black students in desegregated settings" should prompt "much more work in developing the old 'separate but equal' concept of Plessy v. Ferguson," which he said failed largely because it was never meaningfully enforced...
...unheralded third varsity boat of Keith Intrater, Dick Green, Charlie Haynes, R.T. Lyman, A.P. Quigley, Trum Cary, Bruce Ferguson, Ray McConaghy, and cox Glenn Bouchard capped off an undefeated 4-0 season with a narrow two-second win over the Princeton third boat...
...tuned into Curt Gowdy's play-by-play next October. The Cubs should be happy the Phils are in the league or Wrigley's boys would definitely be "double mint, double good, double last," in the 1974 campaign. True, Chicago did junk that disgruntled pair of Ron Santo and Ferguson Jenkins on Unfortunate American League chumps. But the Cubs failed to capitalize on their close-out sale and will be knocking on the Phillies' dungeon door all season long...