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...this bad news about Canadians is mercifully tempered by the tale of Linnet Muir, told in the six final stories, which rank among Gallant's best. At 18, Linnet has already been blighted by a cold father and a merciless mother. Battling back with her only weapons, "secrecy and insolence," she manages to make her getaway from parental oppression...
...employees on a different pay scale from present ones. Under the United proposal, the starting salary for new pilots would drop from $22,452 to $21,600. In addition, newly hired pilots would remain on lower pay scales for the roughly 20 years that it takes to reach the rank of captain. Some senior 747 captains at United now earn $154,000 a year...
...society because of our visibility, that's a secondary benefit. I'm not on some crusade." Keeping the emphasis on help rather than punishment, he is hopeful the Players Association will come around to concurring that baseball's voluntary drug program has proved insufficient, though early returns from the rank and file indicate that ballplayers are as loath as anyone else to swallow truth serum at the workplace. St. Louis Second Baseman and Player Representative Tom Herr says, "Part of me resents the fact that I could be subjected to testing," though he also admits, "another part of me says...
...continues to pursue foreign partners. Last week Olivetti announced that Xerox will now market Olivetti's M-24 personal computer in the U.S. and Canada under the Xerox name. Market experts estimate the U.S. firm may sell some 30,000 of the machines a year. At the same time, Rank Xerox, the firm's British operation, will work with Olivetti to produce and market equipment in Europe and Asia...
Reagan specifically mentioned the SS members buried at Bitburg. "The crimes of the SS must rank among the most heinous in human history," he said. "But others buried there were simply soldiers in the German army." The President went on: "The evil world of Nazism turned all values upside down. Nevertheless, we can mourn the German war dead as human beings, crushed by a vicious ideology...