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Plus Periodic Rest. From the Teamsters President Beck gets the same salary as doddering President Emeritus Dan Tobin, who retired in 1952: $50,000 a year.* He also gets some plain and fancy fringe benefits, including the right to travel at union expense anywhere in the world with his family and aides for "periodic rests"-a privilege specifically written into the Teamsters' constitution...
...long thick trail of smoke and then fire break out," said Arkoudas. "The pilot was obviously trying to keep control, and I think he tried to make a wide sweeping turn, all the while losing altitude rapidly. I thought he was going to make it onto the Struma plain. He didn't. About 1,500 ft. off the ground the airplane disappeared in what looked like a big flash explosion, although I heard nothing. The next thing I saw was a mass of debris falling straight down." In that mass of debris died 57 people, passengers and crew...
...hours of drama a week. At peak hours, drama audiences will average an estimated 23 million viewers per play, and much more than that for touted scripts. By year's end, well over 1,000 live teledramas will have been shown. How staggering these facts are becomes plain on comparison with those of the Broadway theater: there are rarely more than 60 plays a season, most of them duds, and the total long-run audience of a smash hit seldom rises to 4% of the audience of an average TV drama...
...they were pounding on my door and starting to make a hole in it with their knives. There was only one thing to do. I flung open the door and went right out into their midst. I put out my hand, saying, 'I am an American, just a plain American, and we're your friends.' One boy looked at me and said, 'You hate Communists?' I said, 'Yes, I hate Communists.' He slashed his hand across his throat as if it were a knife and said, 'My mother, father, sister killed...
...realism." Then he gazed skeptically at a welded bronze piece, managed to choke out a noncommittal "Novel." But it reminded him of the "stovepipes" turned out by Britain's Reginald Butler, who "has no conception of form." He then invited his entourage of sculptors to debate or just plain chat with him. When all kept respectfully silent, Epstein happily began tossing his horns. One of his gratuitous victims: famed Dutch Abstractionist Piet Mondrian, whose linoleum-like linearities have floored museum walls for two decades. Said Sir Jacob flatly: "A faker!" A museum director murmured a shocked "Oh, no!" Epstein...