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...Eddie Chamberlain, perhaps K-House football's greatest and longest aficionado (for 30 years, he says), has his own theories for the strength of K-House football...
...audacious entrepreneurs who built conglomerate empires from scratch in the 1960s, James Derrick Slater endured the longest. Americans like James Ling (Ling-Temco-Vought), Bernie Cornfeld (Investors Overseas Services) and John King (King Resources) saw their corporate houses of cards collapse around them, but England's merger lord and his mammoth Slater, Walker Securities Ltd. seemed to grow more prosperous every year. Now Slater, 46, has also had his comeuppance, His company's role in alleged fiscal improprieties is under investigation in Hong Kong and Singapore; he has resigned as chairman of Slater, Walker and gone into seclusion...
...point system based on regular season attendance, with every bleacher stub counting ten points, right field grandstand eight, down to skyview and lower box seats which would be worth two points each. Or tickets could be awarded free to fans who had been rooting for the Red Sox the longest--applicants could be tested with such questions as, "Into which pitcher's head did catcher Bob Tillman throw a baseball in apptempting to prevent a steal of second base?" The free tickets could be financed by a windfall profits tax on Boston hotel and parking lot owners, Kenmore Square barkeeps...
...Labor government's current ceiling on wages-no raises of more than $12 a week-Castle proposed a formula that reduced the physicians' basic work week to 44 hours but at the same time altered the overtime policy so that the doctors who worked the longest hours received the lowest proportional pay. Negotiators for the junior doctors reluctantly accepted the offer, but the doctors themselves did not. "Mrs. Castle is a very inflexible negotiator," explained Dr. John Kirwan. "This shows we mean business...
...SAME THEME emerges in the book's longest and best-written story--"The Captain," in which the Michaels narrator, trying to win a job in a publishing company, goes to a dinner party and makes love with his prospective boss's wife. He tantalizes the boss with his own wife (but does not yield her) and concludes with a feat of manhood, screwing his own wife in the back seat of a cab. The narrator gets the job, while the boss finds consolation only in breaking wind at his departing guests...