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...years, Nigel John Davies has been a builder's laborer, a bodyguard, a fairgrounds boxer, an assistant at a beauty parlor, a bet taker at a London bookmaking shop, a salesman of nudie films, a shorthand typist, a paint stripper, a bric-a-brac salesman at the Chelsea antique market, and an interior decorator. He has also been unemployed. But all that was before he met a pencil-thin 15-year-old named Lesley Hornby and said: "You're like a twig. I'll call you Twiggy...
...Three-quarters of all humanity runs around with ruined spines," says Luigi Colani, a successful West German industrial designer. To help prevent any further proliferation of bad backs-at least among typists-Colani has invented the cradle-like device. In it, a secretary can sit upright, slump or practically recline while typing, without missing a key. "Every part of a typist, with the exception of her eyeballs and fingers, is supported," says Colani. Installed in the contraption, a typist can lean against a contoured back and headrest, with elbows planted on concave platforms and wrists braced on two flexible supports...
...culture" from a Mississippi high school, enrolled "because I'm tired of working in the five-and-dime. Regardless of color, we poor people want to get out of our rut and help others around us start moving." Said Nancy Vincenty, who had planned on being a clerk-typist before she heard of open admissions: "If you want to go to college and don't think you'll ever be able to, and suddenly you get the chance, you really work extra hard to stay there...
...ambition. The 15-grade scale, which covers the overwhelming bulk of white-collar civil servants, runs from G51 for messengers, who start at $4,125, to GS-15 for program managers, who begin at $22,885. A medical aide (GS-2) makes $4,125 to start, and a typist (GS-3) $5,212. There are virtually no merit increases, and the periodic raises within each category are small. It would take 18 years for a worker who starts as a G56 administrative assistant to lift his salary from $7,294 to $9,481 if he does not move...
...levels hit .23 parts per million parts of air at some points around the city, compared with the federal emissions standard of .1 ppm. Result: many New Yorkers complained of smarting eyes and sore throats. "New York is like a pickle in its own brine," wheezed a bedraggled typist. A secretary put it another way: "When I came to work, I felt like I should take out my whole respiratory system and wash it." But strangely enough, neither hospitals nor doctors reported unusual numbers of patients. The favorite prescription: "Get out of town...