Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entirely limited to the lower middle class, however. Wallace draws some support from propertied and professional people. Most of his contributions, officially estimated at $70,000 a day, come in small bills at rallies, at $25-a-plate dinners, and in checks through the mail. Affluent backers pay $500 and up to join Wallace "Patriots' Clubs" and lunch with the candidate when he comes to town. In Dallas last month, Wallace dined with such "plain folk" as Mrs. Nelson Bunker Hunt, daughter-in-law of Oil Billionaire H. L. Hunt; Paul Pewitt, who has a $100 million fortune from Texas...
...think it's criminal to pay people for having babies," says Ron, referring to the Aid to Dependent Children program. "Why do we do it?" Sally answers that people getting welfare should be put on buses and taken to jobs; "There are jobs-just look in the Sunday Chicago Tribune" Ron agrees. "That's where I always used to look." The Hoppes want Negroes to have a good life if they are willing to work for it. They do not believe that most blacks display that willingness. "I think we should look into the Negro problem with...
...Africans a larger say in ruling Rhodesia. Wilson has also maintained all along that any new constitution must be acceptable to all Rhodesians, meaning by majority vote. Smith has insisted that it be approved only by a vote among the black chiefs, who are in his government's pay. Smith has not made the chiefs' acquiescence overly difficult. Since 1965, his government has underwritten a program of public works in African villages, and won enough approval from Rhodesia's blacks for nationalist guerrillas to be regularly turned in by their own people...
...episode has shown that Radcliffe can't really afford to pay its service employees a living wage as the cost of living spirals. This time the wage settlement amounted to an extra 38 dollars per girl. Even if this isn't tacked directly onto tuition, each girl will still lose, because the College must simply divert funds from something like libraries or scholarships. And with the cost of labor still rising, there will be more wage increases like this one. But wages are only one facet of Radcliffe's problem. There is also an imminent shortage of service workers...
...campus girls. This amounts to one-and-a-half employees for every ten girls--a rather high ratio for people with very little income and young enough to need little service, especially when the cost of this luxury could soon rise above the ability of many to pay. The obvious answer is to let Cliffies take care of themselves...