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Busting Budgets. The unions have won spectacular wage gains in recent years. Among the higher top-base annual salaries, which are reached after varying years of service and without promotion: $18,000 for firemen and policemen in Chicago, $16,681 for teachers in Detroit with only a bachelor's...
Many court observers wonder. As of last week, the Justices had held over eleven cases until next fall, one of the highest totals in memory. After last week's output of 24 cases, the court had eight to dispose of before it could close for the summer this week...
Spiritual Uplift. The movie, which is inveterately confusing, has to do with Jonathan E. bucking the corporate biggies and refusing to retire on command. Director Norman Jewison (Jesus Christ Superstar) and Screenwriter William Harrison champion nonconformity and the glories of individuality against a faceless state as zealously as if they...
It was something of a tradition at Exxon that the men who reached the top jobs there could trace their careers back to more or less rough-and-tumble beginnings in the oilfields. That was certainly true of big (6 ft. 2 in.), craggy, Canadian-born John Kenneth Jamieson, Exxon...
In tone if not in specifics, these adverse judgments reflect the view of Truman's contemporary enemies, who considered him a clay idol with human feet. The now beloved Missouri Democrat had the dubious distinction of scoring the lowest Gallup popular-approval rating (23%) ever accorded a President-lower...