Word: bonuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sorts of hot teams in the American League this year. The Detroit Tigers (5-1) wangled Pitcher Bill Monbouquette away from Boston in a trade. The Chicago White Sox (6-1) have a new manager, Leo Durocher's protege Eddie ("The Brat") Stanky, and a new centerfielder-Bonus Baby ($65,000) Tommy Agee, who is hitting .366 this spring-but they also have a line-up that averaged 80 strikeouts per man last year. The newly named California (formerly Los Angeles) Angels have a new $24 million stadium in Anaheim and new ambitions (at 20-1). But they still...
...Tony Esposito, brother of the Chicago Black Hawks' Phil Esposito, is on the Montreal Canadiens' "negotiation list," and Wingman Jerry Bumbacco was drafted at 16 by the Black Hawks. The deal for those who do well is free room, board and tuition, plus a $25-a-month bonus if they keep their grades above...
...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...