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...state-wide hunt begins for Sylvester Gardiner '46, football and varsity crew athlete an son of an ex-governor of Maine, who disappeared Jan. 23. Gardiner's family initially suspects he may have fallen into the Charles River while ice skating. After a four-week, multistate search, two children find Gardiner's body floating in the Boston basin of the Charles with ice skates attached to his feet...
Their approach bears the most fruit in the popular four-week high-school-credit courses. Nine hundred villagers, ages 14 to 18, will be in one of these $1,850 sessions (some financial aid is available). "We try to get the credit villagers using the surroundings to experience the language and culture as intensively as possible," says Hamilton. "Nature is to German culture and history what the Wild West is to Americans and the ocean is to the British." To this end, some credit villagers will take part in Grune Welle (green wave), an immersion program in environmental studies...
...minute and 60 minutes in an hour, at a dollar a second the overpaid CEO makes $3,600 an hour. Since he might put in a 12-hour day regularly, his daily rate is $43,200. If the CEO works a six-day week, his weekly rate is $259,200. And if he takes an annual four-week vacation, he still works 48 weeks and gets a salary of $12,441,600. It costs the company $15 every time the CEO takes time out for a drink of water. RICK ROFMAN Van Nuys, Calif...
Members of the Local 35 union, which represents 1,100 food service, custodial and maintenance workers, returned to work last week after a four-week strike over pensions and subcontracting issues. Those issues still have not been resolved, and a contract has not been reached. Local 34, which represents clerical and technical workers, struck in February and also returned to the job after four weeks without reaching a contract...
...testify had "acquitted themselves quite well, and I've been proud of them." Yet the President could not have been completely satisfied. Though they focused on Washington events of just two years ago and featured guaranteed headline-grabbing witnesses like the cantankerous Nussbaum, the Senate deliberations ended a four-week run last Friday pretty much where they had begun: with plenty of suspicious smoke but no apparent fire. The House hearings were different. In a single week, they clearly reinforced the claims by Clinton's opponents that his Whitewater investment was a sweetheart deal...