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...that from now on he will hold out for 50% ownership of any show he writes. He installed a Dow-Jones ticker tape in the study of his home in Glendale to keep tab on his stock transactions. He agrees with his fellow apprentices that TV writers are grossly underpaid...
...Greece, most of the 9,000 priests are underpaid and poorly educated, and the bishops seem to be locked in continual battle with Parliament over such jurisdictional problems as the appointment of new metropolitans. But Greek Orthodoxy has also given rise to the impressive Zoe (life) and Sotir (Saviour) brotherhoods-associations of dedicat ed, theologically trained laymen and clergy who each Sunday spread throughout the country preaching evangelical sermons. "We want to create a more fervent Christian life," says Father Giannoulatos, a leader...
Flourishing Rebellion. Known as the "University Reform.'' the student movement swiftly spread the length of Latin America, only to be turned back on itself by new platoons of tyrants. Fearful of the universities as centers of rebellion, the new dictators slashed government funds, leaving schools staffed with underpaid, part-time professors to teach an ever-growing student body. Learning suffered, but rebellion flourished...
...read the funny papers to find out what's going on around here." Stale Turkey. Not all of Goldberg's labor problems are so fictional or so funny. Last week Secretary Goldberg, who gets paid $25,000 a year, seemed about the most underpaid and overworked official in Washington. He was involved simultaneously in three major disputes: a strike that stalled construction of eleven nuclear submarines in the Electric Boat yards of General Dynamics at Groton, Conn., a strike of flight engineers against Eastern Air Lines, and a court-enjoined strike by the engineers against Pan American World...
...wispy (5 ft. 4 in., 129 Ibs.) Konosuke Matsushita has the self-effacing look of an elderly, underpaid schoolteacher. In fact, he is a daring manufacturing and merchandising genius who, starting out at nine as an errand boy, has built Japan's biggest appliance business from nothing. Matsushita's success has made him Japan's biggest yen billionaire; last year his personal income hit $916,000, and for five out of six years he has been Japan's ''King of Taxpayers." But Japan's prosperity does not delight Matsushita merely because it fills...