Word: bonuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lunar surface and scouted all the proposed flatland target sites for the U.S.'s first manned moon mission. This was accomplished spectacularly in four out of six shots; Surveyor's budget authorized seven. What to do with the last moon robot? As a sort of job-end bonus for a mission brilliantly accomplished, NASA left it up to a panel of lunar experts. They decided to gamble on an exploratory shot to one of the moon's unknown upland regions: the rock-strewn ridges just north of the crater Tycho, in the moon's southwestern quadrant...
...interpreted service in the "national interest" to include only military service and related "defense" endeavors. For example, linemen for civilian telephone companies who work at bonus salary for the benefit of foreign-based military installations are often, thereafter, permanently deferred. The SSS considers their work to have furthered the "national interest." On the other hand, a college student who works on a volunteer economic development program in South America is not considered by the SSS to have performed any service in the national interest...
...foundation, which has merely lost its most treasured trustee but which can easily replace him with someone else like, say, his son. The obvious attractions of the idea have brought ABC at least 250 members so far, and the number continues to grow, partly because of a bonus paid to those who bring in new members. In fact, the enterprise has become successful enough to attract the attention of Texas' Democratic Representative Wright Patman, whose House sub-committee on foundations has been investigating the whole field for more than five years. One ABC trustee took the Fifth Amendment...
There was a Christmas bonus, too, as Lyndon Johnson appeared on the three networks in "Conversation with the President" and placed new emphasis on hopes for "informal talks" between Saigon and the National Liberation Front. In all, 20 minutes of the interview, mostly comments dealing with Viet Nam, were deleted from the final tape. Though some network news executives objected to the editing, it seemed not only a reasonable but also an essential request, considering the gravity of the subjects he covered. On one occasion the President, who has often said that he considered his TV image "a national liability...
...diverted, war broke out between India and Pakistan. Though the battle line came within 50 miles of the site, only nightwork was stopped, since the camp had to be blacked out. The contractors were racing to complete the project ahead of schedule and collect a $6,000,000 bonus, which the Atkinson consortium counted on when it set its price-$20 million under the next lowest...