Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...super-rich may have unloaded our marble mansions on churches, embassies, labor unions and institutions of learning that don't have to pay the taxes or cope with the servant shortage, but we still have plenty of places to lay our heads. Real estate is an excellent long-term investment, and one also likes to travel without having to stay at hotels, where one doesn't have one's own things. So we have houses all over...
...biggest division, the Association of Classroom Teachers (820,000 members), before her election last year as N.E.A. president. She took office at last week's convention in Dallas as the organization flexed its newly developed muscles in anticipation of some rough battles next fall for more teacher pay and power...
Teachers must organize, agitate and, when all else fails, strike, argues Libby Koontz, because "communities recognize power and we must recognize the facts of life." Last year the N.E.A. staged strikes in Florida, Michigan and Albuquerque. She insists that the demand for higher pay does not mean that a teacher is more concerned about himself than his students. "We can be concerned about our kids-and well-paid at the same time. And we're not going to get able young people into teaching unless we improve conditions. All we're saying is that if the schools belong...
COMMERCIALS are infuriating. They are also irresistible. Commercials are an outrageous nuisance. They are also apt to be better than the programs they interrupt. Commercials are the heavy tribute that the viewer must pay to the sponsor in exchange for often dubious pleasure. They are also an American art form. A minor art form, but the ultimate in mixed media: sight, sound and sell...
...make it." Right, says Pall Mall 100s. What counts is whether you're "longer at both ends." Going everybody one less, Player's cigarettes is currently marketing a new brand in Canada that is "five millimeters shorter" than regular size, which means that "you smoke a little less, you pay a little less." If that doesn't make it, there is always Armour Bacon Longs, which are "a couple millimeters bigger" because they "shrink a little less." Sighing, the Camel filters man shows an 18-inch-long cigarette and wonders, "Where will...