Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan was to get Nick into Penny's two o'clock music class before it started, and to have the music teacher, a friend and ally of Nick's, ask Penny to report to his office to talk with him. Penny had no idea Nick was in town...
...York sometimes seems to be run not so much by its elected officials as by the heads of its powerful civil service unions - men like Albert Shanker of the teachers union, Ken McFeeley of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and Victor Gotbaum of the municipal employees union. Over the years, those organizations have wrenched some extraordinary settlements from the city. A garbage collector's base pay after three years is $14,800. A policeman can retire at half pay after 20 years on the force, and probably collect more money in pension before he dies than he ever...
...couples are primed for a presentation on Christ's presence at the wedding feast at Cana (John 2). Then, in a room dimly lit by a few lamps and candles, the priest asks the couples to share their feelings and tell what they are experiencing. A young teacher speaks up: "Tonight, for the first time since we were married seven years ago, I told my wife that I loved her, straight to her face." Another husband tells the group, "I'm still skeptical, but at least we've communicated with each other...
...thumbs, and my husband is all feet," she says. In the next classroom, about 50 women taking "Mastering the Art of Investing" are studying the intricacies of Treasury notes, municipal bonds and mutual funds. In "Being and Becoming Single," a class of 15 women talk about living by themselves. Teacher Betty Kronsky, a therapist, has handed out assigned reading "because I want them to take away something concrete...
...case involved Stephen Wiesenfeld, 31, an Edison, N.J., widower whose wife Paula died in childbirth in 1972. Paula had worked as a teacher, earning about $10,000 a year; her husband, a self-employed consultant, had an income of $2,188 during the year before her death. Left to care for their infant son Jason. Wiesenfeld applied for Social Security benefits for the boy and himself. Though he won an award for Jason. Wiesenfeld was told he was ineligible because such benefits were available only to widows. Wiesenfeld sued in federal district court in Newark, charging that the act denied...