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...said that he would ask the convention to change the union's bylaws, apparently so that he can name his successor if he is jailed. Moreover, he proclaimed, he is considering organizing professional athletes, particularly football players disgruntled with the huge sums paid to "bonus babies." The team owners may not prove as amenable as, say, truck-fleet owners. Warned William Clay Ford, president of the Detroit Lions: "We can make truck drivers of these players real easy...
...dying last November, Kuwait's Emir Abdullah as Salem as Sabah scrawled a final command on a writing pad: "Carry on in the most enlightened way." And indeed, his brother and successor, Sabah as Salem as Sabah, 51, has been behaving most luminously. First he ordered a $140 bonus for all government employees in the rich little oil kingdom-a token that set the royal treasury back by $13 million. Then he decided his own pay was a bit much, had the National Assembly cut his salary from $28 million to $22.4 million per annum, with the difference...
...masculinity, at times almost overpowering in its intensity. Conductor of the Lyon State Opera since 1963, he is the most experienced of the four winners. One of the judges, Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, announced that he had invited Lombard to guest-conduct at the Spoleto Festival this summer, a bonus prize to be awarded on a regular basis to future winners of the contest...
...Green Bay backfield, picked up 96 yds. on 27 carries to earn the game's Most Valuable Player award. When the final gun sounded, it was Hornung and Taylor who hoisted Coach Lombardi to their shoulders, and paraded him off the field. The future might belong to Bonus Babies Grabowski and Anderson. "But I guess," sighed Lombardi, "that there's a little spirit left in those old fellows...
...TAKE IT WITH YOU has been restored to Broadway with loving care and craft by the APA repertory company. The comic zaniness of the Sycamore family is a delight, and an unforeseen bonus is the tender re-creation of the '30s as a golden age of moneyless innocence...