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...newsstands, and most of its advertising is for Flynt-marketed dildos, vibrators and other such recreational equipment. The publisher, who owns his magazine outright, claims he netted $20 million last year, two-thirds of it from Hustler, the rest from his sexual devices and from Chic, a slightly flossier Los Angeles-based sibling magazine he launched last summer...
Highest and Lowest. Americans are undoubtedly the world's highest-paid people, though Europeans and Japanese collect far flossier fringe benefits. Still, a $7,000-a-year bank teller hardly feels happy about the fact that he may be earning 25% more than his Continental counterpart. The human tendency is to gauge compensation not by one's needs but by the relative pay of peers-countrymen, colleagues and neighbors. Many truck drivers last year earned more than $15,000, thanks to the Teamsters' knack of squeezing out the most in wage negotiations. Human nature being what...
...French Premier, Academician François Mauriac, Track Star Michel Jazy, and Bernard Gavoty, Paris' leading music critic. The tributes covered as broad a range. Distance Runner Jazy, who knows something about breath control, remarked in awe that Becaud "must have lungs like Atlas." Mauriac groped for a flossier figure: "One thinks when listening to Becaud of a powerful motor turning at its maximum, and the most curious thing about this machine running full speed is that it is driven by a poet...
...occupancy rate. Those who stay outside town struggle for a choice highway intersection, or even a slight rise of ground so that motorists can see them from afar. Wherever a motelman does well, he can soon expect a rival to try to set up an even flossier motel next door...
...five brand-new vice presidents installed in identical offices. Everything was peaceful until one used his expense account to replace his single-pen set with a two-pen set. Within four days all five worked their way up to three-pen sets. Then they went on to bigger and flossier names on their doors, and other changes, until the president called a halt and broke everyone back to one-pen sets. A big Chicago oil company caused a major crisis a few years ago when it bought a new type of posture chair to test...