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...PAYOFF. Black educational achievement does not lead to equal income. In 1968, white males who completed grade school earned more ($6,452) than blacks who completed high school ($5,801). White high school graduates earned more than blacks with four or more years of college...
...world Alpine ski championship is nominally an amateur affair, the spectacle staged in Val Gardena, Italy, last month looked more like the world ski-trade fair. With their equipment splashily plastered with brand names, contestants paraded before the TV cameras like walking commercials. For a $400-a-month payoff, one entrant sported the badge of a resort he has never even seen. After winning the special slalom, France's Jean-Noel Augert shouted "Vive Le Courbier!"-a hard-sell pitch for a ski resort in which, as he put it, "I am investing all my savings...
Trouble came when a local high-roller wagered $8,000 on a race at the Detroit Race Course. His horse won, and the payoff was supposed to be $46,600. When McLain failed to cough up the money, says SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, he was called before Tony Giacalone, strong-arm man for Detroit Cosa Nostra Boss Joe Zerilli. Tough Tony put his foot down-hard, right on McLain's toes. According to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Denny explained in one of several versions that he had dislocated his toes at home while chasing raccoons away from his garbage cans. At the time...
...Self-employment is a rather rapidly declining factor in our modern economy," Brimmer said. "For the great majority of the Negro population it offers a low and rather risky payoff." If many more Negro-owned businesses are formed, warned Brimmer, they "would certainly be more prone to failure than already established firms, and their failures would leave a lasting burden on the individuals starting these firms. Moreover, he argued, "the pursuit of black capitalism may retard the Negro's economic advancement" by distracting attention from programs that would really help blacks and discouraging Negroes from "full participation...
...Handsome Payoff. Israelis sometimes wonder whether they can really afford such an expensive scientific establishment. Yet it regularly produces so many scientific dividends that its irrepressible president, Meyer Weisgal, 75, a former Broadway impresario, leaves on fund-raising tours with these parting words to his scientists: "Boys and girls, I am going to tell many lies about you and the Weizmann Institute. When I come back, I want all the lies to be true...