Word: bonuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...floundering New York Yankees would just as soon forget the season's opening month-except for Lefthanded Fireballer Gil Blanco, 19, a strapping (6 ft. 5 in., 215 Ibs.) bonus baby from Phoenix, Ariz., who has pitched seven innings in relief, has yet to give up his first major-league run. The Yanks hope that Blanco will help make up for the loss of Curt Blefary, 21, whose college education the Yankees are paying for -even though he plays for the Baltimore Orioles. Signed by New York in 1962, Outfielder Blefary was picked up by the Orioles on waivers...
Signed by the Cards for a measly $4,000 bonus. Bob won 15 games in 1962-before he broke his ankle taking his cuts in batting practice. In 1963 he came back strong, won 18 and lost only nine. Then, last summer, he developed a sore arm: in one 18-day stretch, he started five games and was bombed for six runs in each game. Once again, Gibson bounced back. He won nine out of his last eleven games, for a 19-12 record, went on to star in the World Series-beating the New York Yankees twice...
Although they mustered the largest number of pickets to invade the city since the Bonus Marches in the early '30's, the leaders of the Washington Project were anxious to avoid the rage of a demonstration. The major emphasis was on a series of appointments with officials the State Department, the Administration, the Soviet Embassy, and more than 300 Congressmen to discuss their proposals...