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Twisted Idealism. The Communist-lining in the Teachers Union was plain to see. Japanese teachers are overworked (average work week: 60 hours) and underpaid (average salary: about $50 a month). A small group of Reds and fellow travelers has played on their grievances and twisted their idealism to work up a propaganda war against the U.S. and "capitalist war plans," and for "peace" and "neutrality." Japan's unruly student population, in turn, has proved to be fertile soil for the smooth-sounding "peace" campaigns of the teachers...
...stand on its horizons, and beef cattle move unseen amid its dreary leagues of tangled mesquite brush. To the west, across the Rio Grande, lies Mexico, to the east the cloud-hung Gulf. Spanish is the country's common tongue; the greater part of its people are poor, underpaid Mexican-Americans. For more than a half-century, southeast Texas has been the Land of Parr...
Using baseball's sprirfgtime holdout technique, Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, who considers herself underpaid ($1,250 a week), refused to go near her Hollywood studio. Instead, with new hus band Joe DiMaggio she flew off to Japan, where ex-Yankee Joe will work with old-time Giant Outfielder "Lefty" O'Doul at coaching Japanese baseball teams...
After five months of studying the financial difficulties that beset federal judges and Congressmen, the 18-member Commission on Judicial and Congressional Salaries last week reported that they 1) are "grossly underpaid" and 2) deserve a raise. Among the commission's findings: ¶ The average Congressman spends $3,000 a year more than his $12,500 salary...
...railwaymen, who consider themselves among Britain's most underpaid workers, bring off their strike, it will be the most serious work stoppage in Britain since the paralyzing General Strike...