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...Christ Almighty, you're a mess!" Reynolds quoted himself as saying when he saw Miles' cut lip, bloody nose and the lump on her forehead. "If I was not as mature as I am now, I would lay him out," referring to Whiting. Instead, Reynolds testified, he took her to his own room, where she stayed the night. Late the next morning, when Miles returned to her room-to get her birth control pills, she said-she found Whiting curled up in the bathroom...
...conspiracy" began last May, after the IRS decided that John Heck Jr., owner of the Heck Transfer and Storage Co., a small San Diego moving outfit, owed $9,500 in back taxes and penalties. Heck, 55, had been trying to come up with the lump-sum back payment. But after five months Internal Revenue grew impatient. Using their power to act without any court order, IRS agents simply seized six of Heck's trucks and some office equipment to satisfy the debt. Had Heck's company been a financially embarrassed major corporation, he might have been allowed...
...impersonal way in which aloof aides at a California convalescent hospital bathe their charges, she writes: "They might have been sisters doing dishes. Lift, scrub, rinse, dry, put away. Lift, scrub, rinse, dry, put away." But unlike many writers on the subject, Sharon Curtin, who is 33, refuses to lump all old people into a faceless category as a "problem" susceptible to some mass solution. She does feel that by ignoring individuality, the institutional machinery established to help them destroys their capacity for selfhelp, which might-properly reinforced by society-allow them to carry on much longer by themselves...
...Teamsters in the summer of 1971, throwing his support to sleepy, sluggish Frank Fitzsimmons. Fitz handily won the election at the Teamsters convention in Miami Beach that same summer, and Hoffa became "General President Emeritus" for life, with a consoling pension that he quickly converted into a lump-sum payment worth some $1.7 million...
Hoping to brighten the dour national mood, government leaders declared a nationwide system of wage increases and lump-sum bonuses, which is likely to take effect sometime after the parliamentary elections in March. The plan applies to those making less than $434 a month in greatly inflated escudos, and will be formulated on a sliding scale favoring the lowest-paid workers. Chileans, however, have learned to be wary of the consequences of such enforced increases. In October 1971, after a 100% wage jump was ordered to give the lower classes more buying power, shoppers emptied shelves of already scarce consumer...