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...Fellows are legally students, and however many teaching duties they perform, they have no legal claim to bargain with the university on the same level that full-time teaching members, from instructors to full professors, have. Thirdly, because the administration, this year (1966-67) obviously suffering from a financial pinch, is now irked at the Teaching Fellows and could take irrational steps against the group if sufficiently provoked...
...routes must make reservations well in advance. Other travelers may fret over dusty parlor cars and schedule lapses; TEE passengers can only find fault with luxuries. Complained a Frenchman who rode the Parsifal recently from Paris to Hamburg: "These German waitresses look so stern one doesn't dare pinch their bottoms...
...running well in excess of the available supply of money." As a result, despite Federal Reserve pressure to keep borrowing costs low enough to stimulate the economy, interest rates on corporate and municipal bonds have climbed back to a point close to their 1966 peak. As the money pinch began easing late last year, yields of Aa-rated corporate bonds dropped from September's 6.35% zenith to a low of 5.20% by the end of January. By last week, the rate was back to 5.95% and still going...
...Murray Show, ABC then tried him on a daytime show, Who Do You Trust? The quiz part of the program was downplayed just as in Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life, and Johnny proved himself so droll at japing with his outlandish guests that he was soon pinch-hitting for Jack Paar on Tonight. When "King" Jack decided to quit, he anointed Carson as "the one man who could or should replace...
...Viet Nam veteran stationed at the Army's main pilot-training center, Fort Rucker, I am one of those Army chopper jockeys feeling the "pilot pinch" [April 14] -in the paycheck. The Army can afford up to $245-a-month hazardous-duty pay for commissioned officers, but the maximum it can muster for its growing corps of warrant-officer pilots is $165 a month. My present hazardous-duty pay as a chief warrant is a whopping $115, compared with the $180 a captain with equal time in service would draw flying the same aircraft on the same mission with...