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...board of directors, is that, like dreamy-eyed newlyweds, they had underestimated the cost of housing by some $3,000,000. The error was forgivable. "We are like a family that moved from a cottage into a castle," said William Hadley, the Met's director of finance. "The upkeep of the castle has proven staggering...
...physician's average income-$28,380 for a 60-70-hour week-would be $18,000 for a 40-hour week. He must pay $1,200 a year for malpractice and income-protection (against illness) insurance. His hospitalization insurance, retirement and term insurance are not subsidized. Parking fees, upkeep of an expensive professional library, subscriptions, memberships in professional societies (often necessary to get hospital privileges), donations to hospital funds and the house staff, membership in specialty organizations, though tax deductible, cost him $800 a year net. He spends $600 for two weeks of postgraduate education a year. During such...
Died. Charles Howard, 69, a fat, hearty apple grower whose unshaken belief in Santa Clans led him in 1937 to start a school for St. Nicks in Albion, N.Y., teaching all-round jolliness, beard upkeep and child psychology, all of which he practiced himself in Manhattan as Macy's incomparable Santa for 15 years; of a pulmonary embolism; in Newfane...
After taxes, that would hardly cover the upkeep on Muslim Leader Elijah Muhammad's 18-room Chicago mansion. Clay's handlers were looking for still another nobody for Cassius to fight before he reports for the draft, perhaps in June. Henry Cooper seems to fill the bill best: the latest in a long line of swooning British heavyweights, he can be cut by a slice of bread, and he is now 31. Besides, Clay knocked him out three years...
Councillors and residents alike said the Authority did not have enough men to maintain proper upkeep of the projects. Mahoney declared that the Authority's practice of paying money (some $70,000 last year) to the City "in lieu" of taxes was "nonsense." The money should be used to increase services, he said...