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...four-hour minimum. Bartenders receive a base pay of $2.40 per hour for working in Cambridge, $2.60 per hour for working in Boston, and $2.80 per hour for working outside Route 128. They are reimbursed for subway fare or mileage. A group of last summer's employees asked in vain for $3 per hour as base pay. They also demanded to see precise financial data for the catering division, but this request was accommodated only in a very limited...
...feel sorry for the men who have lost their lives in Viet Nam. We should, however, feel more sorrow for the men who will die today and tomorrow. These vain deaths are the most potent reason to stop...
...G.B.S. letters and memorabilia at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries. A total of $41,900 was paid for the 165 lots-including $4,250 for a packet of 19 love letters from young Shaw to his "undeservedly beloved," a nurse named Alice Lockett. "I am," he wrote, "opinionated, vain, weak, ignorant, lazy and so forth." He gave her a sample in his final letter: "Lovemaking grows tedious to me-the emotion has evaporated from it. This is your fault...
...each taking up 1,000 rooms-and recently it turned down a booking for October 1977-because all rooms are already sold out. Earlier this year some hoteliers overbooked so egregiously that they had to turn away irate tourists who had confirmed reservations. In February, 150 people waited in vain for a whole day to get into the fully occupied Castaways motel at the north end of Miami Beach...
...members, voted to be escorted out in groups of three flanked by one policeman and one faculty member. As the protesters were being led out the back of the building with their hands behind their heads demonstrators chanting in front of the building raced around the side trying in vain to prevent the arrests...