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...response to the consumer revolts that shook Poland last December, he promised every family a television set and refrigerator by the end of the new five-year plan in 1975. He decreed 5% wage increases for some 90 million salaried workers, premium pay for night work and a hike in pensions. He also introduced a family-assistance plan that will provide government subsidies for families whose monthly per capita income is less than 50 rubles ($55). Carefully avoiding words like poverty, he described such families as "underprovisioned." In all, the family program is likely to affect some 34 million Russians...
...increase did little more than put New York on a par with other U.S. cities (see chart); yet no other city is so set up, and so bogged down, with mass transport that 800,000 of its citizens take at least one cab a day. Or did, before the hike. Now, with the average ride up from $1.35 to $2 and the oldtime $7 fare from midtown Manhattan to Kennedy Airport almost doubled, business in New York is already down at least 20% and still ebbing. Only in the rain, or late at night, does the stalwart passenger...
...Heath's hard-line stand against inflationary wage demands. After Heath's apparent victory over the Electrical Trade Union workers in December, though, a board of inquiry subsequently gave the workers much more than they had expected. Britain's bobbies have just won a 16.5% wage hike -well above Heath's 10% limit. Now the nation's 230,000 railwaymen are pressing for a 15% to 25% increase, and London's 26,000 busmen are negotiating for a 25% rise in wages...
This is the first tuition hike in two years at the Divinity School...
...side of 400-ft.-high Cone Crater was not overly fatiguing and that it was cut short 100 yds. or so from the crater's rim only because time was running out. But they still seemed to disagree on one point. Mitchell, who had wanted to continue the hike over Shepard's protestations, said the rolling, boulder-strewn terrain made it extremely difficult for them to keep their bearings. "You simply couldn't see more than 100 to 150 yards away and see landmarks," said Mitchell...