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...concern that the ship's tape recorder might have gone haywire during part of its historic pass at the red planet. As soon as the eleventh picture came through, JPL monitors knew that all was well. Mariner got all the 21 pictures it went after-plus a bonus: 22 lines of a 22nd picture, which might show the dark edge of Mars...
Died. James Finney Lincoln, 82, Cleveland industrialist, president (since 1928) and board chairman (since 1954) of Lincoln Electric Co. founded by his brother John in 1895, world's largest manufacturer of arc-welding equipment, who in 1934 instituted a program of employee bonus incentives on the premise that "selfishness is the motivating force of all human endeavor," which was so successful in boosting volume and cutting costs that he was able to sell his products for less than any competitor, while giving his employees almost double the money (an average $13,000 annually) paid elsewhere in the industry...
...years it has been able to guess within one-half of 1 % of the vital figure. Not so this year. As the fiscal year ended this week, the Treasury found itself with a puzzling $1.6 billion more than the $47 billion it had estimated it would receive, an unprecedented bonus...
...Soviet Cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky in June 1963. Together, they were aloft three times longer than all eight U.S. astronauts who preceded them. They covered 1,609,684 miles in their 62-orbit flight. Not only did White spend 20 minutes floating alone outside the capsule, but as a bonus the space twins returned to earth with a breathtakingly brilliant series of films of the space stroll (see color pages...
Under the new ground rules, no ballplayer can play one $100,000 bonus offer against another. When a player is drafted, the team choosing him has exclusive rights to negotiate with him for six months, and can be as generous or as miserly as it wants. If the player says no, back he goes into the pool, and comes up for the next draft-an older and presumably wiser man. Unlike the pro football draft, where a player retains some competitive bargaining power through rival leagues, he can either like it or lump it. And where a pro football player...