Word: regular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although many of the magazine's big names are gone, 90% of the regular staffers have chosen to remain-perhaps because, unlike the writers with contracts and outside assignments, they depend more on their salaries. They also got two reassuring visits from Murdoch himself. Said Financial Writer Dan Dorfman: "I'm accustomed to writing pieces that offend advertisers and friends of the editor. Will I still have that same freedom?" Said Murdoch: "Write about anything you please, even me, but just be sure you're right...
...course the jobs themselves are difficult. The worker on the pipeline makes his big money during the hours he puts in on overtime, which usually doubles the regular eight-hour working day. Faulkner said he found the mental tedium of a typical eighteen-hour day on the job agonizing. "You sell your soul to ALYESKA when you go to the 'line'," he said. But Faulkner acknowledged afterwards, "I'll probably end up going back there next summer, because where else can I earn that much money?" Looking at one of his paychecks, it is not difficult...
...most dramatic, and probably most serious, loss is at the high jump position. To paraphrase Erich Segal (a Briggs Cage regular in his day), what can you say about a 22-year old, record-breaking high jumper who graduates? Mel Embree broke every record in the book in his three years of jumping and only missed going to the Olympics when Jim Barrineau leaped 7 ft. 4 1/2 in. on his last attempt at the U.S. trials (Barrineau failed to place in Montreal...
Married. Lowell Thomas, 84, peripatetic broadcaster; and Marianna Munn, 49, a former charity executive; both for the second time; on Maui Island, Hawaii. Thomas, whose first wife died in 1975, ended his 46 years of regular radio reports last spring...
...harem and is sold as a slave in Louisiana. Why is the heroine subjected to all these horrors? Cynics might imagine that Marisa's martyrdom is merely intended to offer the bored middle-class female a succession of vicarious masochistic thrills, but Author Rogers seems to think that regular ravishment can raise a woman's consciousness. "I'm tired of being raped," Marisa announces at last on page 654. "Don't I count as a person...