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MASSACHUSETTS' PAUL TSONGAS. He campaigned on the slogan "This Democrat can make a big difference in Congress." Today, a half-year into his term, Tsongas, 34, is hard pressed to pinpoint what he has been able to do that has made any real difference to anyone. He admits: "This has been a manic-depressive six months...
...about $40 a week, yearly 3% salary hikes plus cost of living increments, members of Local 6 (average age: 56) will receive a $2,500 bonus if they retire during the next six months. As an added enticement, retiring printers can exchange a guaranteed six-month leave for a half-year's pay plus the bonus, giving them a lump settlement of around...
Newsmen have welcomed the improvement in atmosphere but not the juggernaut schedule, which has kept them in the air 240 hours this year. In his half-year in office, the Vice President has flown 80,000 miles to make 375 appearances. The Ford entourage was on the road 28 days in May alone, and the June schedule offers no relief. Last week reporters sent him an only half-facetious memo reading, in its entirety, "Subject: Complete Exhaustion...
...Expos. now--top-heavy with Directors, Assistant Directors, Head and Assistant Head Sectionmen--tries to operate on the hysterical notion that a half-year course in Writing has got to Do The Job, or else. For apparently the course was severely scrutinized last year when senior faculty complained that Harvard undergraduates could no longer write well. So beef up Expos...
Fanatical about his privacy, he often disappears for weekends without telling his closest associates where he is going, and during the half-year that he is free he sometimes disappears for a whole week. He hires a plane to take him to Las Vegas or Denver, or, with his valet and righthand man George Whittington in the seat beside him, heads out of the driveway in his new ice-blue Rolls-Royce. The license plate? KILLER...