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...House is an old-fashioned gouge-as-gouge-can story of business success. An immigrant boy from Ireland, John Horgan has clobbered his way to the top of a chain of supermarkets. Brutal, foulmouthed, yet strangely charming in his roguish, broguish way, he keeps his junior executives underpaid and forever conscious that they must undersell the rival A & P. Horgan's law is that "you never know where bottom is until you probe for it." In one hilariously horrible probing match with Horgan Co., a pudgy little enamelware dealer seems lucky to leave with his ribs, let alone...
Until a few years ago, workers in the field of mental health were neglected, underpaid and unwanted. Today they are in urgent demand all over the U.S. This goes for psychiatrists, administrators, occupational and recreational therapists, and psychiatric social workers. Items: the U.S. has 8,500 psychiatrists and 12,000 psychiatric nurses, has jobs for three times as many of each; the average state hospital is 75% understaffed in clinical psychologists and social workers. At the annual governors' conference in Chicago last week, a new fact emerged: the shortage is so bad that raids between states for psychiatric workers...
...hydrostatic balance (a device for measuring the specific gravities of objects), went on to construct the first astronomically usable telescope and perfect the law of the motion of falling bodies. He was equally at ease pruning his Florentine vineyards or penning satiric verse. For years, Galileo grubbed away in underpaid mathematical teaching posts without losing his love of learning or his abiding contempt for the ossified scholars of his time. He subscribed delightedly to a painter friend's proposed coat of arms for pedants: "A fireplace with a stuffed flue, and the smoke curling back to fill the house...
...your Feb. 21 report on the VA: Thank God for the U.S. Veterans Administration. If it had not been for it, I would have been dead of cancer over a year ago. Two operations by their grossly underpaid doctors saved me ... You speak of a 1,000-bed hospital with only 385 beds in use; every day men who fought . . for their country are turned away to perhaps die because these beds are not being opened to them. How callous can people get? Everyone should know of the surgical wards in some VA hospitals where one lonely nurse...
...Jack") Cominsky, publisher of the Saturday Review, suggested to booksellers that they add travel bureaus, ticket bureaus and Western Union branches to stay afloat; he did not even want bookstores to be called bookstores, quoted a department-store president who suggested "community centers for modern living." Book clerks are underpaid, frequently know little about their wares. Said one, a veteran of 40 years in the largest bookshops: "The turnover in employees is greater than the turnover in books. We are just waiters without tips...