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...look at the value of the work to the society and determine pay based on that." What once was a cry for "equal pay for equal work" will, accordingly, become a demand for "equal pay for comparable work." How this will be measured and worked out is still a mystery???how does an hour at the computer keyboard prorate against the same time spent in the typing pool...
...main thrust?and the one shrouded in mystery???developed in rugged, sparsely populated and Communist-infested Military Region I (formerly known as I Corps). There the U.S. command massed a total of 20,000 ARVN and 9,000 U.S. troops, plus at least 600 choppers. The juggernaut advanced westward on, above and around Route 9, an all-weather dirt road running 40 miles across South Viet Nam into Laos. At Khe Sanh, road graders rolled across the red clay plateau as troops patched one shell-torn runway and built a second to handle up to 40 big C-130 transports...
...EGYPTIAN CROSS MYSTERY???Ellery Queen?Stokes ($2). One headless corpse after another leads gorily and with breathless speed from West Virginia mountains to Long Island...
Eagerly they searched the vicinity, found imbedded in the ice three bodies, well preserved. From the clothing of one the discoverers took a pedometer, excitedly read the engraved name of Salomon August Andree. A 33-year mystery??? was solved. They knew for certain now that the other two were the bodies of Knut Fraenkel and Nils Strindberg who, with Swedish Scientist Andrée, vanished in 1897 in an attempt to fly across the North Pole in a balloon...
...past, and at the time the story opens just budding into radiant womanhood. There also lived the foul Lizard, Villain Number One ?and Saint Jimmy, who was just Tiny Tim grown up and wild about doing good to everybody. There also came Hugh Edwards?man of mystery???fleeing from the shadow of a crime?and, of course, Sonora Jack, the outlaw, dropped in occasionally?and Natachee, a philosophic Indian, was always monologuing his way about the crags?in fact, now and then, the good old canon got so cluttered up with characters there wasn't room enough left...
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