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...supplemental unemployment benefits, or SUB, tacked on to unemployment compensation; the total can go as high as 95% of take-home pay for a 40-hour work week. But SUB funds, supplied by companies as part of the union contract, are not infinite and could expire if big layoffs drag...
...delay will be another blow to the economy. The settlement must eventually go to the 120,000 U.M.W. members for ratification, which should take eight to ten days. As a result, the strike, now in its third week, will probably drag into a fifth or even sixth. A prolonged strike could cause layoffs in coal-dependent industries to multiply rapidly and could send the unemployment rate later this year above 6.5%-a figure that Administration planners had not expected to be reached until next year. Layoffs related to the coal strike last week totaled nearly 20,000. At U.S. Steel...
...camouflage. The evidence on-screen strongly suggests that The Klansman was made pseudonymously by the Snopes family, trying to cash in on the cracker-violence genre pioneered by Walking Tall. Come to think of it though, The Klansman lacks that certain Snopesian gusto. All it has is a drag-tail rankness. ·Jay Cocks
...large-and has delayed unconscionably the vital task of arranging the succession. Most members of the Senate Rules and House Judiciary committees seemed to agree last week that they had found no disclosures sufficiently serious to block Rockefeller's confirmation as Vice President. But the hearings could easily drag on until January, by which time Rockefeller would face the new, and perhaps more hostile, Congress...
Under such conditions, Myra is periodically able to take full command of Myron's body. This gives the narrative a Jekyll and Hyde format, with Myra eventually upstaging Myron, who every one thinks is a drag queen. Still unsatisfied by her escapades in Book I, Myra resumes her humiliation of men, inflict ing yet another hilarious outrage upon a strapping, redheaded youth out of the Van Johnson mold. She also undertakes to save Hollywood, armed with the fore-knowlege of its decline and Vidal's grasp of the industry's "future" profit-and-loss sheets. She even...