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...jurors are employed by the Government and thus continue to draw full salaries. Some of the others, who include blue-collar workers and domestics paid on a daily basis, rely heavily on the money they get for each day they serve. Until last August, that was $20. Then Foreman Vladimir N. Pregelj, 46, a researcher for the Library of Congress, discovered a law entitling grand jurors to an additional $5 a day for service beyond 30 days. He was unable, however, to per suade court administrators to make the pay raise retroactive...
...second Watergate grand jury, sworn in last August to deal with an antitrust action against ITT, illegal cam paign contributions and other misdeeds, is having similar problems. Last week the jury's foreman, Julian G. Murphy, 54, an independent insurance broker, said that he was quitting because his in come had "dropped at least $1,500 a month, and my business was going down the drain...
...despite the personal sacrifice, most of the members of the original jury have been remarkably restrained in their criticism. Says Foreman Pregelj: "We are all getting a little tired, but no body wants to drop out, especially now. We may be in the homestretch and we all realize this is a historic case...
...running out for both of them. Perhaps the fight will be as dramatic as their last clash in 1971, but by any measure the stakes are not. Frazier is no longer the defending heavyweight champion of the world; he is defending little more than his pride because George Foreman took away his title with a surprise knockout last January in Jamaica. Ali, after being beaten by Frazier three years ago and by Ken Norton last March, can no longer claim that he lost the title only because his disagreement with the draft law forced him into temporary retirement. Each fighter...
...team, headed by Maurice E. Rice, assistant foreman of operating engineers, will traverse the 7.5 miles of underground steam tunnels nightly to shut off completely heat valves in classrooms and libraries and to lower dormitory temperatures to 60 degrees...