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...lives. And for good reason: the suspense of the well-planned caper, the guaranteed palm-sweating factor in window-ledge gymnastics, the romantic appeal of the Lone Wolf against Society. He Who Rides a Tiger is a low-budget British import that delivers all these with a handsome bonus as well-some real characters worth caring about...
...more such breaks and it will all be there for Denny McLain?30 victories, the World Series, that five-figure bonus check, more endorsement money, more of everything. And for McLain, it will be none too soon. "I want what I want now," he says. "I don't expect to live to 40. My wife keeps telling me to slow down. But I can't slow down. I just live too fast. My father died at 36. His father died at 36. And his father died at 32. I'm in a little better shape than my father...
...Southern Republicanism as a lure. It is still an attractive mark to those in all regions who view the Federal Government as an inefficient leviathan. That this position also appeals to the old states'rights sentiment, the resistance to change imposed by alien authority, is something of a bonus for Nixon. The Southern attitude is an inducement for him to press the point vigorously...
...least 900 to the $4.93 the average steel-worker now receives in wages and benefits. By comparison, total compensation back in 1950 amounted to $1.91. Be sides a three-year pay increase of 440, the new pact calls for broadly improved pensions, a new $30-a-week vacation bonus and an eighth paid holiday. The two sides agreed to submit one of the thorniest problems, a union demand for expanded incentive pay, to arbitration. For the 400,000 steelworkers affected, the contract was especially lucrative when compared with the wage-and-benefit gains of about 3.5% won in the last...
...contended that the Spaniard was merely a competent craftsman. "For there to be true co-authorship," argued the Renoirs' attorneys, "the law insists upon common inspiration and mutual control. Obviously in this case there was neither." Besides, the lawyers said, Guino has already received something of an added bonus-the family sponsored his career long after Renoir's death and even commissioned him to do a bust for the grave...