Word: bonuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need help," admitted Coach George Wilson Sr. For all the careful planning and cute pep talks ("Let's win one for the Flipper"), his Miami Dolphins, playing their first sea son in the American Football League, still had not won a game. Quarterback Rick Norton, a $300,000 bonus rookie from the University of Kentucky, had been intercepted six times in five games. The Miami offense was averaging only 14 points a game, and the defense was taking a pounding. "Those poor boys no sooner come off the field and sit down," sighed Coach Wilson, "than the offense loses...
Friendly Lizards. To reward its revolutionaries, AID tries to better an applicant's stateside salary and then adds a 25% Viet Nam bonus; group-health, life-insurance and leave benefits are the same as for other foreign-service workers, and allowances are paid for families that must be left at home. Volunteers are warned that a job in the boondocks could be dangerous - nine AID men have been killed by the Viet Cong, eleven wounded and two kidnaped. Even so, commented one recruiter, "It's probably safer working there than crossing Times Square...
...Economics Minister Michael Stewart ordered a large electrical-appliance maker not to pay 200 employees a 5% wage increase that had been negotiated before the freeze went into effect. In the other, he ordered London newspaper publishers to cease paying a two shilling (28?) per-week cost-of-living bonus to 25,000 printers and production workers. Since installments of the bonus had already been paid, deductions from future paychecks would be necessary in order to keep the wage standstill completely intact. The newspaper union was outraged. Said a spokesman: "The government sows the wind and will reap a whirlwind...
Just One Hit. "Do you know any Polish jokes?" goes an old baseball line, and the answer is "Yes, Moe Drabowsky." Drabowsky was born in Ozanna, Poland, came to the U.S. when he was three, attended Trinity College in Connecticut, and collected a $75,000 bonus for signing with the Chicago Cubs. So far, so good. But he has since bounced around nine teams, and until this season, when he compiled a 6-0 record in relief for the Orioles, his most noteworthy achievement was getting his name in the record book-for hitting four batters in one game...
...Matty Alou, plus timely hitting: in one game they spotted Atlanta a 5-1 lead and roared back to win 8-6. The Dodgers had Koufax, who breezed to his 25th victory (and fourth in a row), an 11-1 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies. They got a bonus in the return to form of Don Drysdale, who looked like his old overpowering self when he shut out the Chicago Cubs 4-0. At week's end the Dodgers were leading the Pirates by H games, the Giants by 4. But it was still anybody's pennant...