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...money, in a sport where champions have traditionally worked for glory rather than cash. The 54 men and women in the meet will compete as contract employees of the new International Track Association (I.T.A.). They will get $500 as first-prize money in their specialty at each meet. Bonus awards will go to athletes who tie ($100) or break ($500) a listed world record. The purses are modest by comparison with most pro-sport salaries. But if professional track catches on at the gate, there will be television rights, remunerative endorsements and a bigger...
...effect; the pay was $6 per visit to the doctor. More controversial was testing in connection with development of a male contraceptive pill. Volunteers received $10 a month for weekly sperm specimens, plus $25 for periodic biopsies of the scrotal skin. After a year, they were paid a $100 bonus, and underwent mandatory vasectomies because, in some cases, their testicles had been exposed to the possibility of radiation damage...
Wallace's 39.0 breast-stroke performance in the 200-yd medley relay "added bonus to the entire team." McCabe said. Lennihan took first individual in the 50- and 100-yd. breast-stroke races...
Most courts have thus far avoided the complications of these "bonus" arrests, which are generally made without search warrants. Now Federal Judge Warren J. Ferguson in Los Angeles has become apparently the first judge to declare a skyjack search unconstitutional. He acted in the case of John K. Meulener, who tried to board an American Airlines flight and activated a magnetometer. Since Meulener also fitted the secret federal "skyjacker profile," which purports to list the characteristics of potential skyjackers, he was thoroughly searched. Authorities found 76 grams of heroin and more than half a kilo of marijuana in his suitcase...
Freshman diver Dave English, competing in the JV-Exeter meet, had another outstanding weekend. On one dive he received phenomenal 7 1/2 9, 10 scores from the judges and his continued improvement night be a key bonus in later meets with Princeton, Penn, and Yale...