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Facelessness. More specifically, Dutton claims that suburbanites and union members now find a new bond in their common concern about "instability, facelessness and congestion" in U.S. society. "Psychic problems are rapidly outpacing economic concerns." The blue-collar workers are "increasingly young, black and female," he argues, and this means that "their concerns are not at all what George Meany thinks they are." Thus, despite the open animosity of AFL-CIO President Meany and other labor leaders, the McGovern staff feels that the Senator can attract rank and file worker support. Dutton also expects McGovern to tap sufficiently a general resentment...
...Young Socialists. Satanists tossed Frisbees with the Jesus people. Half a dozen young stragglers took refuge under a spreading shade tree, stuck up a crayoned POT PEOPLE'S PARTY sign, and soon found that they had the largest group in the park. Exclaimed one young Democratic worker who had spent months planning for the expected crunch of street people: "It looks like a Boy Scout jamboree...
Social Security taxes next year will be taken out of the first $10,800 of a worker's pay, and in 1974 out of the first $12,000, way up from the first $9,000 now. The tax rate will rise too, but only from 5.2% to 5.5%. Result: anyone earning $12,000 a year will pay $468 this year, $594 next year and $660 in 1974. But he will not really feel this bite until late 1973-almost a year after the elections. This year deductions from his paycheck stop at the end of September; next year they...
...general rise of wages in the economy. The taxable wage base could easily reach $ 15,000 by 1978, and $20,000 sometime in the 1980s. Over the years, this change could drastically shift the impact of Social Security taxes, which in the past have hit hardest at low-paid workers. Unless Congress changes the law, taxes on people earning $12,000 a year or less will not go up at all after 1974, but many people who make more can expect to pay more every year. The $15,000-a-year worker who pays $468 this year could be shelling...
When John Hilton Knowles was director of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, the elevator operator called him John, the nurses thought him charmingly handsome, and both the medical staff and trustees considered him something of a miracle worker. He burnished the hospital's already fine reputation. Under his leadership, the hospital's physical plant was partially rebuilt, while much of its ponderous bureaucracy was short-circuited. He promoted an extended-care unit for the aged and chronically ill, established clinics in Boston's heavily Italian North End and in depressed Charlestown. He engineered the opening...