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...special bonus this year, the draft pool is larger than it will be again. Every1-A aged 19 to 25, inclusive, during 1970 will be in the pool for that year. In later years, only those who turned 19 the previous year-and those who lose exemptions during the year-will be draft-able...
...lunar rock. Most important, Apollo 12 would leave behind a more sophisticated array of sensitive instruments than those left by Apollo 11. Powered by a nuclear generator, the Apollo 12 package would give scientists their first continuously operating observatory on another world. And there was an additional bonus: the first color telecasts from the surface of the moon...
...about CBW warfare. I saw this one. I sat there (waiting for Shanghai Express of course) watching all these flashes of botulin and anthrax, hearing them described as more humane than bullets and bombs. A liver-spotted general emeritus told me how germs give me (us-US) a bonus area of death, and how we had germs because the Russians had germs, and how we would like to fall back on gems if that would prevent nuclear holocaust. At the end of all of this Mike lowered his script and reassured me that this complex, emotional, controversial subject (his voice...
...practice of paying lavish allowances began years ago with the oil companies. Then it was a way of inducing men to accept jobs in Africa and the Middle East. Today, the extras apply almost everywhere and sometimes add 50% to a paycheck. International Harvester pays its employees a bonus of as much as 20% to go abroad, and Pan American grants a flat $75 a month. General Motors expects its men to pay 15% of their salaries for rent, but the company defrays seven-eighths of anything above that level. Like many other corporations, G.M. also pays for the children...
...vendors had recognized a familiar figure-portly Evangelist Billy James Hargis, 44, who this month led his 31st pilgrimage to the Holy Land. With him were 23 members of his anti-Communist Christian Crusade, seeking, said Hargis, "a spiritual blessing and reaffirmation of faith." But there was a bonus. "Our trips to Israel are not only religious," Hargis reminded his faithful entourage. "I want you anti-Communists to meet anti-Communists in other parts of the world. Israel is a bastion against Communism...