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Then there are the college prospects and the established stars who are playing out their options: the common draft and a no-poaching rule will eliminate huge bonuses and salaries. "There's a good chance that action will be taken in the courts," says Chicago Attorney Arthur Morse, who negotiated big bonus contracts for Chicago Bears Linebacker Dick Butkus ($100,000) and Green Bay Packers Fullback Jim Grabowski ($250,000). Players might claim that the league was limiting their right to choose the place and price of their employment. To head off such an action, league officials are lobbying...
...named Rick Reichardt and George Scott. "I don't have a natural home-run swing. My arms are too short," says Outfielder Reichardt, a 23-year-old Wisconsin lad who signed a $200,000 contract with the Los Angeles Angels in 1964-thereby making him the most beautiful bonus baby of all time. Rick's first act as a pro was to step into the batting cage at Chavez Ravine and belt a ball straight over the 410-ft. sign in dead centerfield...
...Scott was kicked out of the Greenville, Miss., Little League at eleven because "they said I was too big and too good. Over one stretch of six games, I hit at least two home runs in every game, three in most." Signed by Boston for a modest $10,000 bonus when he graduated from high school, he spent last year playing for the Red Sox's Pittsfield, Mass., farm club in the Class AA Eastern League-where he hit .319, with 25 homers in 140 games. Batting in the big leagues, he allows, is easier in some ways than...
...There was even an air of disappointment, as though the Commons were flagellants who had just had their whips confiscated by a benevolent abbot." Next day the critics were heard from. Businessmen predicted that the payroll tax would drive up the cost of living. Union leaders predicted that the bonus to manufacturers would increase the already serious problem of labor hoarding. The influential Economist simply dubbed the budget "fatheaded...
...most strikingly at an eerie masked ball where all the guests are feathered out as birds, again in a cell where a rotter confronts his festering conscience in a mirror that swivels to catch his every move. The spare, clever background music by Composer Maurice Jarre is a pleasurable bonus in a movie that does not just dwell on the past but feelingly rediscovers...