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...pipe in Wagner's Niebelungenlied in octophonic sound 24-hours a day, and still die of starvation in the process. That is part of what this fund-raising for the BSO is about, too. Ten per cent of the aimed-for $115,000 goal will go toward the pension fund for the players, most of whom are grossly overworked and similarly underpaid. With some success, the orchestra players may be able to afford to give their children music lessons some...
Moore's various duties for the CIA apparently included "logistics," but the agency refused to be more specific. After a heart attack in 1973, he retired on an estimated $15,000-a-year disability pension. Father of four children and a voluble antiCommunist, he was considered a bit eccentric by neighbors. They reported that he was the sort of man who would rail at their teen-age sons one day and try to make amends the next by righting their overturned garbage cans...
...Teamster contract called for a 36 cent per hour wage increase, established a pension plan and provided unemployment insurance, hospitalization and major medical protection, life insurance and paid vacations and holidays. Gallo advertised on May 6, 1975, during the UFW's National Farm Workers Week, that the Gallo farm workers were "the highest paid in the continental United States...
...bouncer in the girls' dorm of The American School of Switzerland. "It was fox-in- the-hen-house time," says Stallone with a grin. The highlight of his bouncer career came when he chaperoned a group of girls on a visit to Paris, boarded them in a cheap pension and pocketed most of the ample hotel money. "What the hell," he says. "They saw the real Paris that...
...midsummer to $4.70 a pound currently. The price hike caused an outpouring of rage. "Bastaf" cried desperate Italian housewives, forced to turn up their noses at the fragrant wheels stacked on their grocers-shelves."When Parmesan went up to $4 a pound," said one Milanese widow living on a pension, "I told my grocer to eat it himself...