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Cleared Throats. Emerson (capacity 50) is totally dedicated to the self-help theory. In 16 months, its eight-man faculty has not had a payday ("The faculty supports the college"). When one highly qualified French teacher complained about dirty classroom windows, she was told: "You know we don't have a window washer here, baby. Wash them yourself." She quit on the spot. Nor does Duskin worry about policing students. Eight of them have set up their pads in a cabin outside town-in what combination he cares not. Says Duskin: "You can't lock girls...
...state skipped a payday, finally squeaked through by tapping its $50 million Veterans' Trust Fund and slapping nuisance taxes on beer, whisky, tobacco, etc. The fight damaged what Paul Bagwell calls "the heart of the image of Michigan," killed Soapy's hopes for a place on the 1960 National Democratic ticket, convinced him that it was time to shop for another...
...Army and Air Force men and their families stationed in 27 countries, payday usually means a visit to the PX, the world's biggest exclusive shopping preserve. Last week the payday rush was on in 5,933 PXs, helping to make the Army and Air Force Exchange Service rank in dollar volume below only Sears, Roebuck, J. C. Penney, Montgomery Ward and F. W. Woolworth among retail chains. To maintain its place as one of the U.S. military's greatest fringe benefits, PX branches stock up to 30,000 items, sell everything from underwear to refrigerators...
After last week's fight, Moore was frankly startled at questions about his plans for the future. "Man, what you think?" he cried. "I want the big payday -Becerra [the bantamweight champion], Brown [the lightweight champion], I don't care. I ain't working for free passes. I'll take care of all the business...
...cane plantation, he asks Tiger to come along as his assistant and timekeeper. They wind up in a hut at Five Rivers, where sugar cane is life and life is sugar cane. The laborers work under the brutal sun by day, pour rum down their parched throats by night. Payday is so important that those who have shoes put them on for a few minutes as they stand in line for their money. And second in real authority only to the white overseer is Tiger-because he can read and write. He makes friends: Chinese Otto, who orders a radio...