Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Steven Spielberg was all of 26 when he was hired. At the age of 16, he had made a 2½-hour feature for $500, partly bankrolled by his father, a computer executive. Young Spielberg premiered this maiden effort-a sci-fi monster flick-in his home town of Phoenix with all the trimmings, including limousines and klieg lights raking the sky. By 20, he was in college just outside Los Angeles and had bluffed his way onto the Universal lot, where he hung around movie sets "until I got thrown off. Hitchcock, Franklin Schaffner, I was bounced...
Within a month, Margaux's name was popping up all over the place. Within two, she was picking up top-scale fees for modeling gigs ($100 an hour). By the time her 20th birthday came round in February, Margaux had posed for a Vogue cover, was starring at celebrity-jammed parties, and had announced her engagement to Boy Friend Errol Wetson. On the pop scales, Margaux was beginning to outrank even Mick Jagger. Clearly, something big was about to happen to Margaux. Sure enough, in the middle of May, just 249 days after her arrival in Manhattan, she landed...
...some thought that there must be a forest fire. But that was in March, and the smoking has not stopped since. One of a dozen major volcanoes in the western U.S., the 10,778-ft. Mount Baker is now venting several thousand pounds of sulfurous gases and debris every hour. Right below the mountain's summit, the 1,600-ft.-wide crater is so thick with fumes that geologists can enter only with gas masks. Does this spectacular activity foreshadow the first major eruption in the lower U.S. in a half-century? U.S. Geological Survey scientists refuse to speculate...
Everywhere, competition for the few summer jobs is bitter and no longer involves only youths. Six Flags Over Georgia, a huge amusement park outside Atlanta, has received four applications for every one of its 2,000 summer jobs paying $1.80 an hour. When Personnel Manager Jerry Oliver asks youngsters why they want to work, many tell him, "My dad lost his job, and I have to help pay the bills." In addition to high school and college applicants, Oliver notes, "we get older people, 35 and up. They have been laid off by General Motors and Ford or by other...
...Francisco, 12,000 youths have applied for 4,400 part-time jobs paying $2.10 an hour; the program is open to youngsters from families that are on welfare or earn incomes below the poverty line, now set at $5,050 a year for a nonfarm family of four. In St. Louis, 30,000 to 40,000 youths are expected to sign up for about 4,900 public service jobs, and Chicago will have at most 42,000 positions to offer to three times as many applicants. That assumes that some federal funds will be forthcoming to supplement the city...