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...earned income without suffering any reduction in the maximum federal subsidy of $1,600. (The $720 constitutes what the government considers the cost of working, such as transportation, clothes and lunches, for a year.) For a family of four, the descending scale of federal subsidy-apart from any state payment-would work this...
...sold, with nary a script or a pilot, and commissioned Universal to produce it. Robbins would get a percentage of any profits, plus $10,000 a show. Furthermore, he says, he was guaranteed a full 26 weeks the first year instead of the customary 15 or 17, and payment for a second season of 26 shows "whether it bombs or not." For that unprecedented, sweet contract, Robbins gave ABC only a nine-page "treatment," conferred a few times with Universal, and then took off for his Riviera home...
...crowd inside kept pushing forward (a girl from Englewood N.J. somehow managed to make it from the back of the field all the way up to the photographer's pit to stand beside me). Wein, who earned whatever amount of money he's making on this with a down payment on an ulcer, kept asking everybody to "keep it cool," and he was pretty much successful. At any rate, the ugly scene never happened--thank God (or somebody...
Next to inefficient workers, Decio abhors waste. He believes that its most flagrant form is the payment of interest on borrowed money. Thus, Skyline's expansion has all come out of profits; it has no outstanding debt at all. Because of the tremendous need for low-cost housing, Decio can name his own terms. When his dealers order mobile homes, for example, they must pay in advance -an unusual practice in any industry where each unit for sale represents a large investment of cash...
...inside the gloomy hall, often used as a wrestling arena, quickly showed the weakness of the S.D.S. regulars and the strength of the P.L.P., which had packed the convention with 700 well-drilled supporters. A motion backed by the central headquarters group, the national office, to admit reporters (after payment of $25 and signing of a security pledge) was massively defeated by 90% of the delegates. The defeat was the first of a series of humiliations for National Secretary Michael Klonsky, 26, and Interorganizational Secretary Bernardine Dohrn, 27. The decision after an hour's debate...