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...Newsman Ted Koppel took a year off from a steady job so his wife Grace Anne could finish school. He sustained no visible career damage?indeed his boss gave him a daily three-minute radio program to keep the bills paid???and after his wife graduated, he went on to his greatest success as host of ABC News Nightline. On the other hand, Don Demers, an industrial engineer in Dayton, took the kids while his wife finished med school, then found, after more than two years away, that he could not find another job. Commented Charles Arons, president...
...Silverman go so easily is a mystery, but Silverman's reasons for leaving are clear enough. Although he was certainly well paid???around $250,000 a year at CBS?he was not given what the trade appropriately calls "keeping money": stock options and other benefits that enable an executive to build personal capital. (His salary at ABC is reportedly about the same now, but will rise to $350,000 next year. In addition, he has stock options and all the perks previously denied ) Worse, he was denied entrance to "the club," an elite group that really runs CBS. Following...
...clothing constituted a legitimate political expense, since he and Betty bought their new togs to use at the 1972 G.O.P. convention, when Ford appeared on national television to introduce Nixon's Cabinet. The IRS ruled that the outlay was not a legitimate campaign expense and he was assessed?and paid???$435.77 in additional taxes...
...broadcasting office in Manhattan. Besides them, 286 other Protestants have taken part?occasional Sundays, at morning devotional periods, at "hymn-sing" Thursday evenings, during Lent and at Thanksgiving. They represented all major Protestant denominations and all parts of the U. S. None was paid. Singers and musicians, however, were paid???$67,247.23. In the daily devotional programs they performed 736 hymns taken from 19 different hymnals. They reached from ten stations (Hymn-Sing) to 75 (Sunday Services...
...crux of the matter is that the law requires tourists to declare "the full foreign value" of merchandise bought abroad. Tourists ordinarily know but one foreign value?the price they paid???and almost invariably set down and pay duty on the retail price. Yet the law defines the full foreign value as "the market value or the price . . . in the usual wholesale quanti- ties." Every businessman knows that the average retail price is about 50% greater than the wholesale price, yet tourists commonly pay duty on the former...