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...Ohio's legislature neared its first round of forced retirements last year, 13 of 39 term-limited representatives quit to take jobs in the private sector or in Governor Bob Taft's administration. House speaker Jo Ann Davidson, term-limited herself, had to appoint three finance chairmen in a single year. "You have to run an ongoing orientation throughout the session," she says...
...BOB BARKER celebrated his 30th anniversary as host of The Price is Right last week by signing a five-year contract extension. "I signed a five-year contract last time, and I didn't think I'd finish it," says Barker. "My brother said, 'By the time you finish this one, you'll be 104!'" Barker, actually 77, is still taping new shows four days a week, knocking down 86% of his putts in the Golf Game and rooking poor innocents on the infernal Plinko board. "That's not true. Yesterday I had the all-time winner on Plinko...
There was a moment in the early '60s when the folk-music revival evolved into rock 'n' roll with a message. One person who realized that folk had to move on--to step out, as he put it--was Bob Dylan. One other person, Richard Farina, may have realized it too, but he died in a motorcycle accident in 1966, just as he was poised to become Dylan's great rival. In Positively 4th Street (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 328 pages; $25), David Hajdu adds an important chapter to the Dylan legend by recounting the professional and personal loves of these...
...never have to wake up in the morning and wonder if I've got a job," says foreman Bob Knapik, 41. For almost a half-century, it's been that way at Lincoln's headquarters--guaranteed lifetime employment for all full-time workers who have been there at least three years. And that doesn't mean, by the way, that Lincoln is some Rust Belt relic of the 1950s. Thanks to its fabled incentive-compensation plan--which, instead of an hourly salary, pays assembly-line workers based on how much they produce, plus a year-end bonus (hence the grading...
...Bob Dylan, he'll tell you that "things have changed." But it sure seems as if they haven't changed much. This summer's European scene looks like a collective musical flashback, packed with acts that have been around for decades. Dylan, now 60, has been on what seems like a nonstop tour in recent years. Perhaps he's still trying to redeem himself from his 1966 U.K. performances, when he was greeted with catcalls and boos. This year, his eight-country European swing will have a much warmer reception at stops that include the Roskilde, Montreux Jazz and Stimmen...