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...JOHN MCDONALD...
Brennan further argued for allowing employers to pay teen-age workers as little as 80% of the adult minimum wage, or $1.52 an hour this year−less than they get now. Among union men that proposal is known as the "McDonald's plan" because it has been strongly pushed by the McDonald's hamburger-stand chain, which employs 80,000 teen-agers−more than all but a few businesses in the nation. McDonald's is headed by Chairman R.A. Kroc, who gave $250,000 to the Nixon campaign last year...
...notorious targets for petty, in-house thieves-are known to be heavy users of the polygraph. Officials of Zale Corp., a Dallas-based jewelry chain, admit that they ask a large number of new employees to take lie-detector tests before they are formally hired. The Burger King and McDonald's hamburger chains also have used the polygraph on some employees, though McDonald's last month ended the practice at its California outlets under pressure from the state labor commissioner. Indeed, polygraphers figure that as many as one-fourth of all major U.S. companies now subject at least...
...that civilians have long since absorbed. That local double bill, for example: Suburban Wives and Tower of Screaming Virgins. Four years ago, it would have been restricted to a few downtown grind-houses. Today, blue-movie palaces are as much a part of the suburbs as the wildly proliferating McDonald'ses. Shaking his head, the new Van Winkle heads for a newsstand. Here, there is still more catching up to do. A copy of Look? No way. Life? No more. How about a copy of Crawdaddy, Screw, Money, Rolling Stone? Rip has heard of none of them. He looks...
...events Nick Leone will be favored in the quarter mile or 600, whichever he runs. Dewey Hickman is among four hurdlers favored in the 60-yd. highs while co-captain Bob Clayton is a cofavorite with B.C.'s Keith Francis in the 1000. Co-captain John Quirk and John McDonald of B.C. head the field in the mile. Harvard's Ric Rojas is among four sub-nine minute two milers centered in what could be the best race of the meet, with Harvard freshman Bill Durette a dark horse threat. Quirk has recorded the better time by two seconds...