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Behind the bonuses-for-quitting policy was an effort to pare down the Inquirer's bulging head count-more than" 700 editorial and office employees. After an American Newspaper Guild strike last summer (TIME, June 23; July 21) in which job security on the overstaffed Inquirer was a major issue, management and guild agreed that to anyone who resigned or retired in the last half of 1958 the paper would pay a bonus of one week's pay for every year of employment, plus full severance pay (maximum: 31 weeks). The plan worked. In all, 142 employees quit...
...German A. This new course was quite popular and the "Aural-Oral" (Cornell) method of teaching is proving to be a success. "There is no guarantee that we'll stop at 4 hours a week," a section man said, "but in the event that we don't, we'd pare down the homework...
COMMUTER SUBSIDY will be tried by Philadelphia in six-month test. City council will give $160,000 to the Pennsylvania and Reading railroads. In return, rails will increase commuter trains to and from suburban Chestnut Hill, and pare one-way fare from...
...Recipe: Pare and core two baking apples and slice into eight wedges each. Sift 1½ cups of flour with 1 tsp. salt, cut in ½ cup shortening. Moisten with 4 or 5 tbs. of cold water. Roll out into 16-in. by 10-in. rectangle and cut into 16 10-in. by 1-in. strips. Wrap one strip around each apple slice. Arrange, without touching sides, in 13-in. by 9-in. by 2-in. baking pan. Brush with ⅓ cup melted butter; sprinkle with ½ cup sugar mixed with 1 tsp. cinnamon. Pour ½ cup of water over...
...Salim as Sabah of Kuwait sometimes has prodigious company with his meals. On his oil-born annual income of $260 million, the number of guests he could see around him at a given dinner party is limited only by the geographical horizon. But even so, sheiks do have to pare their invitation lists, which explains why Abdullah of Kuwait has ordered-from West Germany's Vereinigte Werkstaetten furniture makers-only 200 straight-backed, 14-carat, gold-plated dining-room chairs...