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...presidential hopefuls were jittering around Boston City Hall, making nice to the caucus delegates and observers who had laid out fifteen dollars to drink a little wine and listen to the candidates make their bids. Fred Harris, a Democrat from Oklahoma, stood in a corner greeting strangers like long-lost friends...
Sabby Lewis and a fifteen-piece orchestra are at Sandy's Jazz Revival at 54 Cabot Street in Beverly this weekend. The orchestra has among its many talents, Phil Wilson, local trombonist extraordinaire, and vocalist Mae Arnette...
...sanitation man $15,731. A full professor in the city university makes from $24,000 to $38,000 a year; a teacher in the secondary-school system receives an annual salary ranging from $9,700 to $20,350. Teachers earn more pay, in fact, for less work. Fifteen years ago, a junior high school teacher had a work load of 30 45-min. periods a week, and was required to do a variety of other chores. Today the same teacher is responsible for 25 periods a week and cannot be asked to perform any extra functions. As they rise...
...Fifteen per cent of the Harvard class of 1975 are alumni sons, and 12 per cent of the Radcliffe class are alumni daughters. Twenty per cent of the fathers of the Harvard class of 1975 received no college education. Sixty-three per cent are professionals 19 per cent are white-collar workers and 11 per cent are blue-collar workers. Thirty-five fathers are listed under the category of "writer, artist, musician...
...Compagnie Forestiere du Gabon. It's about the size of five football fields, just in floorspace. It has three lakes in which you can hardly see the water, there are so many logs and it has a dozen hangars where the finished product is stored. It takes about fifteen minutes for a twenty-foot log to be stripped of its bark, clamped into the peeling machine, and transformed into a few hundred feet of "veneer," one-quarter to one-eighth of an inch thick. The veneer is baked, tested, sewn together if it breaks, doused with glue, and stamped...