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Money flowed like ballpark beer, and college stars gleefully acted as their own auctioneers. The Detroit Lions lost Southern Cal Quarterback Pete Beathard, their No. 1 draft choice, to the A.F.L.'s Kansas City Chiefs. The Chiefs gave Beathard a $15,000 bonus for signing, a $20,000 contract, stock in a pay-TV company, a new car and a rent-free apartment...
...Bonus for Breakthroughs. Productivity is being increased partly by men but mostly by machines. In the past five years, such devices as continuous mining machines, automatic freight yards and automated pipeline networks have increased the productivity of coal miners by 35%, rail workers and oilfield roughnecks...
National Food pays off nearly 700 winners a week and collects a bonus in increased grocery sales. But it will not hold the jump on its competitors for long. Already the rival Red Owl chain has started a TV bingo contest with prizes of trading stamps held out to thousands at home with Red Owl cards. In cities all over, stores are staging such games as "Hidden Treasure," "Split the Dollar," "Hit 100," with a payoff in money, appliances and stamps for those who eagerly collect them...
...Homer will then wind up a career that reshaped his company and made him one of the best-rewarded executives in the U.S. His current annual salary and bonus: $307,082-of which Beth Steel figures he pockets $79,048 after taxes...
...while depreciation write-offs up to 75% in the first year are permitted on new equipment. West Germans who lend money for industry or housing there can knock 10% to 20% of the amount directly off their income taxes. And to woo younger settlers, Berlin offers a unique family bonus: at marriage every couple gets a $750, 15-year loan that is reduced by 25% with the birth of each child...