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...Simon's workday is so individual and changeable that he has no routine in the usual sense. He rises between 6 and 7 a.m. in his house in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles, begins the day's first round of telephone calls over a leisurely breakfast of tea, toast and fruit. For Simon, the telephone is a compulsive device: he has four unlisted telephones at home, three more in his blue-carpeted office at Fullerton...
...guarantees seamen specific amounts of food (meat every day), water and medicine, plus an eight-hour workday. Yet the work is still so dangerous that last year nearly 50% of all U.S. seamen suffered injuries.* Since ships are, in effect, monarchies afloat, seamen are also close to being indentured workers. Seamen have successfully resisted being covered by workmen's compensation, which pays only modest amounts for disability arising from employment. They revel in gambling for considerably larger awards through wide-ranging lawsuits...
...matter, as James Gates, executive secretary of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, points out, is that most of the nation's 1,600,000 elementary-school teachers are insufficiently trained to teach math -either new or old. Many teachers who spend a fifth of their workday on math have not taken any math courses themselves since the ninth grade...
...workday of Pet Milk President Theodore R. Gamble frequently begins at 5:30 a.m. in a duck blind near his St. Louis home, and he has been known to spend two hours shooting before he drives to the office. Even in a blind, Gamble follows his fetish for utilizing time; when no ducks appear, he runs through paperwork or reviews Pet's problems with invited aides. Such attention to time has carried bright, youthful (39) Ted Gamble a long way in a little bit of it. He abandoned a Wall Street career to help save 79-year...
...woman of extraordinary complexity. She fights like a man, and swears and drinks like one too. Her love affairs are legion; yet in her ample bosom, religion burns with a white flame. She thrives on a noisy 15-hour workday. In Bolivia, she is called "half-breed"; in Paraguay, "burro rider"; in Haiti, "Madame Sarah." Everyone knows her as the market woman, the indispensable harridan of commerce who easily ranks as the No. 1 retailer to Latin America's lower classes...