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...against them. Socialists gained six seats but fell short of a majority in the 231-seat lower house, will still need the help of the minuscule Communist Party (five seats) to maintain their welfare state, and put through a new program to pay everyone in retirement a pension that is two-thirds of the average of their 15 best years' salary. The election showed a hardening of opposition to this expensive outlay. Agrarians and Conservatives, who are most opposed to the idea, picked up at least 14 seats, fj In Belgium the country was almost evenly divided...
...luxury goods denied others. By Russian standards, their salaries are princely; Nesmeyanov makes 30,000 tax-free rubles ($7,500) a month, besides thousands more for teaching, lecturing, appearing on TV or writing books. Even after an academician dies, his privileges continue. His widow may get a pension and a lump sum of 75,000 rubles, his grandchildren may get extra allowances while in school. A British visitor noted that the chief topic of conversation among Soviet scientists, aside from their work, is the servant problem...
...decided to call it quits. "I don't want to get out," he said, "but I'm tired." He added that he would stay on in his $26,000-a-year job as president of Chicago's Local 10 until he can get his half-pay pension ($10,000 a year) from the A.F.M. next year. Union officials began pleading with him to stay on longer...
...Senate cloakroom whispers had it last week, the bill sponsored by Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy to regulate $30 billion in pension and welfare funds was safe labor legislation. It had labor's blessing; it would be the only labor bill this session; it would rectify at least some of the fraudulent labor-union practices exposed by the McClellan investigating committee. On these grounds an ample bloc of Democrats and liberal Republicans banded under Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to push the bill through. But they reckoned without California's William Fife Knowland...
...regulation bills will hit the floor by mid-June. The Johnson coalition held firm, voted down Knowland's amendments, but Knowland had won a victory for labor regulation by guaranteeing that the Senate will have to go on record this session on harder-hitting bills than a routine pension and welfare bill...