Word: correction
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...have just finished reading your cover story on John Fairchild, and would like to say that I think your reporters did a superlative job in describing the correct mixture of fear and respect that most of us within the industry have for Fairchild Press...
...Song of the Open Road, 1970" [Sept. 14]. I will make it a point never to stop at the Dixie Truckers Home at McLean, Ill, because of the remarks made about truckers by Mr. John Geske. The $18,000 to $20,000 a year figure is more or less correct, but here is what it takes to earn that kind of money. A trucker is away from home sometimes for weeks, often driving trucks that are furnaces in summer and freezing in winter. A good percentage of truck drivers have chronic stomach trouble and other health problems...
...strange crusade will be is still uncertain. Local authorities are already overburdened just keeping pace with new applicants, who in some counties average more than 200-a day. Says Robert Hannon, Chairman of the Alameda County Committee on welfare: "In essence, Mrs. Whitner's charges are correct. I'm grossly dissatisfied with the whole program." The fact that officials did not stop the Dirty Dozen even after finding out about their capers indicates both their apathy toward welfare cheaters and the difficulties of curbing their profit-making activities...
...case, no one in the hall seemed much interested in this, Mr. Fox included. He announced that instead of giving the traditional rundown on what each fellowship means, this year he would merely correct two errors in the OG and CP's lengthy senior handbook ("After Harvard-What?") and then throw the floor open for questions...
...free economy, conflicts between powerful competing forces are inevitable. U.S. labor has won many of its greatest advances only after striking. Yet the auto walkout comes at a particularly bad time, when the nation is troubled and its economy is sluggish. If the pessimists are proved correct and the strike drags on, it may well become a cause celebre for organized labor, drawing to the workers' side protest movements of all sorts. The real tragedy of the bitter battle is that it hits the U.S. when the country can ill afford any further social tension...