Word: agent
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...McNally challenging baseball's reserve clause. Under that 92-year-old provision, a player had been bound to the club that initially signed him until he was traded or quit the game. When an arbitrator (and later an appeals court) ruled in favor of the players, the free-agent era began. Players who completed their contracts were free to offer their services to the highest bidder. The first free-agent re-entry draft was held the following fall. Reggie Jackson came away the big winner, signing a five-year contract at a reported $3 million with the New York...
Wayne B. Williams, 23, was standing in an Atlanta phone booth one afternoon last week when FBI agents approached him and, he says, "insisted" he go downtown for questioning. As word of Williams' interrogation began to spread, many Atlantans expressed hope that the long search for a killer of many of the city's 28 young black victims might be over. Yet twelve hours later Williams, a former TV cameraman and part-time talent-booking agent, was released. Publicly, law enforcement officials said they did not have enough evidence to hold him. Privately, they insisted he was still...
...arise years after their cause has ceased-in this case the war. Fourth, the Government has rejected the claim of thousands of Viet Nam veterans that a wide range of symptoms, many of which developed since the G.I.s returned, can be blamed on exposure to a deadly defoliant called Agent Orange, 12 million gal. of which were used by U.S. forces in Viet...
Scientists have linked dioxin, the most toxic element in Agent Orange, to cancer in animals. Researchers in Italy and Viet Nam claim dioxin is tied to birth defects in humans. Veterans also blame the chemical for headaches, sexual dysfunction and organ damage. They say perhaps 80,000 soldiers were exposed to dioxin. The Federal Government says there is no way to tell, although some 45,000 soldiers have been tested and a federally financed study is under way at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health...
Elizabeth Winston, Price's press agent, said yesterday. "Whenever she gets these degrees, its been our policy not to get publicity until it takes place." She added, "it would be kind of cheap to get a few lines in before it actually happens on the fourth...