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...newly graduated engineer with a bachelor's degree can expect a starting salary of $16,000, plus sign-up bonus. Engineers with ten years or more experience in virtually any facet of electronics can fetch $50,000. Additional perks often include payments for the selling costs on the recruit's old home and closing costs on the new home, free lodging while house hunting, conferences with tax specialists (in hopes of setting up tax shelters) and membership in a country club...
Herb Pomeroy Big Band--guess what they play? A free Summerthing presentation, Saturday on Boston Common at 8. And, as an extra bonus, a dance demonstration by the Arthur Murray Studios. This could be the sleeper of the weekend. Or just the sleeper...
...little further out of the Square on Brattle St., the Paperback booksmith sells largely the same assortment as Harvard Bookstore. The decor is more in the '60s style and the atmosphere is a little less intense, and as a bonus, you can usually find more weirdos browsing there than anywhere else in town. Again, the prices are whatever is printed on the cover, so don't come looking for any sensational bargains. You're sure to find any and all popsychology books, plus the Rolling Stones-'60s revival volume you've been looking for so long, so spend away...
When nine inches of rain pounded New Orleans in one day early last month, the downpour left behind containers and pools of stagnating water that were perfect breeding grounds for mosquitoes. That was a bonus for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which had already picked New Orleans as the site for the first extensive test of mosquito control not by chemical or hormonal means but by another kind of mosquito...
...know, I just can't figure it out; I mean I was figuring fifth, sixth, hell, I would have settled for seventh round. I was waiting by the phone Tuesday evening--no call. O.K., so the second day is no disgrace, take the bonus money and run--no call. Free agent then, I wanted the tryout, make the team, collect the play-off bonus money and renegotiate next year--no call...