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This is the stuff that sells for seven figures in paperback. But the book's commercial value is an added bonus, not something for "serious readers" to turn up their noses at. Thompsons' latest work is psychobiography, whodunit and courtroom drama tied into one, and fused by the enigmatic Sobhraj. The author says he is now at work on his first novel. One can only hope his imagination yields a subject as gripping as the real world...
Contract miners like Aberle and Burns rarely see the gold they dig, which is usually invisible to the naked eye. Like other miners at Homestake, they get paid only for the volume of rock they shake loose and ship out - plus an hourly bonus based on fluctuations in the price of gold. (In the past month the bonus has nearly doubled, from 310 to 570 an hour. The daily gold rate, chalked on dimly lit blackboards deep under the earth, is watched by miners as keenly as it is by the gnomes of Zurich...
...addition to its coverage of the week's news, TIME in recent years has been giving its readers a bonus: excerpts from major books of international consequences-the memoirs of Anwar Sadat and Theodore H. White, a study of Chiang Ching (Mme. Mao Tse-tung). But never before has TIME offered an excerpt comparable in importance or scope to the one that will run in three parts beginning next week: Henry Kissinger's long awaited memoirs. TIME'S readers will be the first in the U.S. to receive a serialization of the book...
Clerical workers informally agreed Tuesday night to a contract providing a $200 bonus and 35-cent-per-hour raise the first year and another 35-cent raise the second year. The difference between the second pay hike and 7 per cent of the entire clerical payroll will be placed in a fund for raises based on merit alone. The contract also officially recognizes the union...
...administration's wage proposal is a $200 cash bonus coupled with a 35-cent-an hour raise the first year of the contract, and an additional 35-cent-an-hour raise the second year...