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...rank 13th out of the 15 teams in the National Football League in total offense, 13th in passing, and 15th in punting. They do not have a man among the league's top ten pass receivers, and they have only one among the top ten rushers: $300,000 Bonus Rookie Johnny Roland, who is No. 9. Their quarterback, Charley Johnson, stands No. 7 among N.F.L. passers, and, against the Chicago Bears last week, he completed four out of 16 tosses for 47 yds. The only thing in which the St. Louis team leads the league is, well, leading...
...Europe nearly everyone gets a bonus to compensate him for the added costs of a wife, a child, a dependent parent, or unpleasant working conditions. Italians are paid $8.40 a month extra for each child, also collect supplements if they work at an open-hearth furnace, at a high altitude, or in an old malarial zone, though malaria has seldom struck since Mussolirii drained the swamps. The Belgians get extras to cover the cost of commuting by train, and the hardy Dutch, who cycle to work, are given "bike money...
Housewives' Target. The boycotting housewives had little interest in the complexities of economics or electronics, but they concentrated much of their ire on a most visible target: supermarket games. The cost of such come-ons as Bonus Bingo, Pot-O-Gold and Let's Go to the Races amounts to approximately two-thirds of 1% of supermarket sales-half as much as the profit margin for the industry. The marketers rationalize that the games are an expensive promotional nuisance, but that Mrs. America is attracted by them despite her protests. Said Clarence G. Adamy, president of the National...
...need help," admitted Coach George Wilson Sr. For all the careful planning and cute pep talks ("Let's win one for the Flipper"), his Miami Dolphins, playing their first sea son in the American Football League, still had not won a game. Quarterback Rick Norton, a $300,000 bonus rookie from the University of Kentucky, had been intercepted six times in five games. The Miami offense was averaging only 14 points a game, and the defense was taking a pounding. "Those poor boys no sooner come off the field and sit down," sighed Coach Wilson, "than the offense loses...
...Economics Minister Michael Stewart ordered a large electrical-appliance maker not to pay 200 employees a 5% wage increase that had been negotiated before the freeze went into effect. In the other, he ordered London newspaper publishers to cease paying a two shilling (28?) per-week cost-of-living bonus to 25,000 printers and production workers. Since installments of the bonus had already been paid, deductions from future paychecks would be necessary in order to keep the wage standstill completely intact. The newspaper union was outraged. Said a spokesman: "The government sows the wind and will reap a whirlwind...