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Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller has dipped into his own capacious pocket to supplement the pay of a dozen state officials, although the Arkansas attorney general told him it was unconstitutional. Newark's Mayor Kenneth Gibson has persuaded local businessmen to add $2,500 a year to the city business administrator's $35,000 salary in order to attract a top outside professional to the job. Now the mayor of Honolulu, Frank Fasi, has offered $40,000 from his campaign war chest to help fend off a strike of Teamster drivers that would have halted two privately owned Oahu...
...employed by the firm as a $20,000 a year consultant. In addition, Technicolor has paid half the rent on Murphy's Washington, D.C. apartment and has provided him with a credit card for his travel expenses. Murphy claims that there is nothing wrong with a Senator picking up pocket money in such a fashion, but the incident is the kind of political no-no that can lose elections...
...attorney was too wise to come on as an overweight William Kunstler. He made sure that all the military people knew he was a World War II Navy veteran; he affected a when-in-Rome costume of field boots and green fatigues with his name sewed on the shirt pocket. And he did not advertise that he had defended Michael Ferber at the Dr. Spock trial...
...collect more money sooner, and greatly reduce the insurance companies' administrative costs. Transportation Secretary John Volpe is pressing the White House to back a limited form of no-fault insurance on a nationwide basis. But such a change would hurt many powerful interests, notably lawyers who now pocket a large percentage of damage awards, and the Administration prefers to wait until next year before sending any proposal to Congress...
...Since "poverty in a mental hospital is no less dehumanizing than in a slum," patients should have pocket money, not merely scrip or credit...