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...fact, most high school stars with a notion of making it in the pros don't apply to Ivy League colleges anyway. A halfback can build a much bigger reputation (and command a much plumper bonus) if he goes to Texas rather than Brown...
...thing. Nobody, including Sandy Koufax, had any idea how good he was to become when, as an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Cincinnati, he was spotted playing on a sandlot team. In 1954, Sandy signed a Dodger contract for $6,000 plus a $14,000 bonus. Scout Al Campanis wrote in his memo to Dodger Owner Walter O'Malley: "No. 1, he's a Brooklyn boy. No. 2, he's Jewish." The Dodgers' move to Los Angeles was still four years away. In the meantime, says General Manager Buzzie Bavasi, "there were many...
...fail to mention the greatest cause of poverty: the fact that two poverty-stricken people are encouraged to multiply the problem by producing new poverty cases. Politicians might consider an annual cash bonus for nonproduction, the amount to double for the second year, triple for the third, etc. This might eventually get parents off relief and reduce the future relief load...
With a sharp decline in revenue from non-Communist trade, Cuba has become even more dependent on Russia's million-dollar-a-day dole and bonus of five million dollars annually for military expenditures. Castro, a hard-headed nationalist, doesn't want to remain perpetually dependent on Russian aid; thus he plows a good deal of the capital into the development of an infrastructure to lay the base for future production...
...after her Emmy award for My Name is Barbra, her first and only starring appearance on television, Funny Girl Barbra Streisand, 23, was puttering around with her pet poodle backstage at Broadway's Winter Garden, when who should drop by but the New York Jets' $400,000 bonus-baby Quarterback Joe Namath, 22, unfresh from what he hoped would be his one and only appearance for the U.S. Army. Waiting the word on whether his gimpy right leg had passed an Army draft physical, Joe clowned with his shades and the poodle. Barbra smiled her bonus-baby smile...