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...This puts transatlantic air travel in the pocket of the workingman," proclaimed Freddie Laker, the scrappy founder of Britain's Laker Airways, when in 1971 he first proposed Skytrain "shuttle" flights between New York and London at rock-bottom prices. Six years of governmental turbulence have held up the takeoff, but last week President Carter approved Laker's plan. Since the British government assented in February, Laker's three red, white and black DC-10s are now cleared to begin flying passengers Sept. 26 at the lowest fares ever quoted: $236 round trip...
...Italian stallion is taking jabs again, only this time out of the ring. In his first film since Rocky, Sylvester Stallone, 30, plays a union organizer during the '30s through '50s who battles politicians and corporate executives for the rights of the workingman. The title: F.I.S.T. (Federation of Interstate Truckers), the union that Stallone's character, Johnny Kovak, helps build. "Kovak came off the streets like Rocky did," observes Sylvester. "But this guy was born to be a champion." F.I.S.T. appealed to Stallone because of its "solid foundation." The story, he says, "has bones." Director Norman Jewison...
...proposed gas tax should correctly be called "The Carter Old, Poor and Workman Tax" since it will: 1) penalize the workingman dependent on the auto to and from his job, 2) hurt the poor who cannot afford new little cars, 3) restrict the old on fixed pensions, 4) increase food prices even further due to higher farming and trucking costs, and 5) make the auto manufacturers wealthy through accelerated replacement of large autos with small ones...
SICK PAY loses its role as "the workingman's tax shelter." Previously, a worker owed no tax on as much as $100 a week-$5,200 a year-of money that he received while he was absent from the job because of injury or illness. Now, such pay is taxed as heavily as the income a worker earns when he is healthy. The only exception is payments to people under 65 who are totally and permanently disabled-and in some cases even they may not qualify. Making matters worse, many employers did not withhold tax from paychecks mailed...
...attractive blonde gradually acquired Wilson's unquestioned confidence-and a power over party matters that made her the terror of his "kitchen-cabinet" Labor cronies. It was hardly a secret that among those on her list of less-favored was Haines, 49, practitioner of an abrasive, workingman style of Laborism. But until the pro-Labor Daily Mirror last week began excerpting Haines' new book The Politics of Power, few realized the puritanical depth with which he despised Williams' temperamental exercise of power and love of privilege...