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...York City cab drivers did not have enough troubles with traffic, potholes and other cabbies, they are now being taught "better synergistic movement of the buccal cavity." In uddah woids, to tawk propah. Last week, at a seminar with an audiologist invited by the United Taxi Owners Guild, the hackies struggled like so many Eliza Doolittles to correct elided consonants, curdled diphthongs and other "substan-dardisms" peculiar to the area. If all goes well, they may give up on diction and speak only when spoken...
Certainly the Met is behaving that way. The performance will be a $60-top benefit for the Met Opera Guild. Siege is the hottest ticket in town. All five performances are sold out, and the Met has had to turn down some 7,000 additional orders...
...dozens of other major news organizations all have hiring freezes. The Christian Science Monitor is hiking its advertising and subscription rates and dropping some 100 employees. The Monitor is also switching to tabloid size in April, a move that will save $100,000 a year in paper costs. Newspaper Guild employees at the Washington Star-News voted to go on a four-day week, at four days' pay, in order to avoid the elimination of 100 jobs. WTTG-TV, Washington's Metromedia outlet, cut its budget by $500,000 this year and laid off a reporter...
...measures, Hank Mosiello (B.S., New York University; M.S., Columbia) is no ordinary con. Within a month of his arrival, he enrolled in a correspondence law course, then organized Trenton's other jailhouse lawyers into Inmate Legal Associates, the first paralegal guild in a U.S. prison. The owner of about 600 lawbooks, Mosiello is sufficiently well-versed in their contents to have freelanced some 50 briefs for private attorneys at $200 each. His legal specialties are corporate law and medical-malpractice suits...
...hypothetical case before the moot court concerned a paroled official of the Carriers Guild Union who, by the conditions of his parole, could not hold union office until the time at which his original prison sentence would have expired...