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...himself as Tom Denley and said he was recruiting a force of mercenaries to stage a coup in Suriname, a tiny (pop. 400,000) South American country that was formerly Dutch Guiana. Each man, Denley said, would be paid $500 a week during the operation, plus a $1 million bonus if the coup succeeded. Unbeknown to Denley, the man on the other end of the line was an FBI agent...
Bradley's interest in tax reform was stirred, typically, not by a three- by-five card handed to him by a Senate aide but by his own firsthand experience. As a bonus baby for the New York Knicks in 1967, his eyes widened as his lawyer described all the ways he could shelter his six-figure income. "I wasn't just a player," he recalls. "I was a depreciable asset." On one road trip, when his teammates went to the movies to unwind, Bradley curled up with heavy tomes by Economist Milton Friedman and Tax Specialist Stanley Surrey and first...
...page, young Mario loved the clean connection of ball and bat. He was a natural athlete. Baseball was his calling; he was a centerfielder, a more compact, combative version of his idol, Joe DiMaggio. Cuomo was good enough for the Pittsburgh Pirates to sign him for a $2,000 bonus to play in their Class D Georgia-Florida League. A scouting report prepared at the time singled out Cuomo for his talent and his aggressiveness: "He is another who will run over you if you get in his way." Once, when a catcher muttered an ethnic insult, Cuomo turned...
Although Navy's supremacy nixed any similar comeback plans this season, Crimson Coach Alex Nahigian did salvage one bonus from this weekend: he won his 400th collegiate contest Saturday...
...Chicago, Andy Frain Services, a supplier of ushers and ticket takers for concert halls and sports arenas like Comiskey Park, is faced with new recruiting headaches. Says Operations Director James Wronski: "The bonus of * seeing a ball game or hearing a concert used to be enough to attract the workers we needed. We used to sign up half the kids we solicited for jobs. Now it's below...