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Five months ago, Hannafin, a bachelor with a law degree from Colum bia University, joined the Forty-Plus Club of New York, a nonprofit cooperative for executives and professionals who are seeking jobs. Each week four or five of the club's 130 members resign to take new jobs-but Hannafin does not know when he will become one of the lucky leavers. "My chances are considerably dimmer than other members of the club, the financial business being what it is," he says. "It's difficult to apply for a job in a totally unrelated field. The only...
...line continued to slide, and in February, Moss slipped an interesting item into the club newsletter: while Freelandia was nonprofit, it said, a Moss-controlled company called Transmar was not. In fact, Transmar was leasing Freelandia the DC-8 as well as providing management services for a fee. More disgruntled employees complained of having to invent daily alibis for club members who demanded refunds for canceled flights. Aggrieved members could be repaid only when cash came in from sales of tickets for future flights, and the amounts owed piled higher and higher. Though 45 coast-to-coast flights were made...
...Pacifica Foundation, the nonprofit organization that owns KPFK, as well as radio stations in San Francisco, New York and Houston, is supporting Lewis on the ground that the constitutional issue in the case must be tested...
Joan Ganz Cooney, 44, revolutionized children's television in 1969 when she began producing Sesame Street for the Public Broadcasting Service. A former NBC publicity director, she now presides over the nonprofit Children's Television Workshop, Inc., which produces 130 segments of Sesame Street and 130 of Electric Company each year. Elegant and outspoken, Mrs. Cooney has served on the President's Commission on Drug Abuse and was recently appointed to the media-monitoring National News Council. In the past year she has formed two C.T.W. subsidiaries to produce shows for commercial TV and ease Sesame Street...
Stephen H. Hess, 41. Scholar-Activist Hess alternates between working in Government and writing about it. A senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution, a nonprofit organization that analyzes public policy, he is a Johns Hopkins political science graduate who briefly taught government, at 26 became a White House speechwriter under Dwight Eisenhower. In 1969 he was appointed national chairman of the White House Conference on Children and Youth. Writer or co-author of five books on politics, he is now writing Organizing the Presidency, a book he describes as a primer for future Presidents...