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...owners' conspiracy to flout a free- agent agreement long in place. Unlike major league baseball teams, N.F.L. clubs reserve a right of first refusal on the services of any player whose contract has expired. Should he sign with another of the league's 28 teams, steep compensation in the coin of draft choices is stipulated. Contending that , a pro football player's life expectancy is below four seasons, the union wants all four-year men to be unfettered by compensation clauses. Observing that the average salary is up from $90,000 to $230,000 since 1982 (thanks largely...
Most Notable, Unnoted Play of the Week: This week's award goes to Coach Joe Restic, who directed Captain Duksky to defer his option if he won the coin toss before the game...
...nine CIA staffers involved later told investigators for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing that the nine other stamps they acquired were sent out on agency mail. Skeptics, however, believe that each of the employees kept a single stamp for himself. Jim Ellenberg, owner of a stamp- and coin-collecting shop in suburban Washington, insists he recently gained possession of one of the inverted candlestick stamps from a CIA man. Says Bill Bergstrom, office manager of the Schiff firm: "It is obvious one, all or some ((of the CIA workers)) were holding the rest...
Often it is not the basic product or service that is appealing but the atmosphere in which it is provided. Phil Akin was working his way through Iowa State University in 1983 by installing coin-operated machines on campus when he decided to start his kind of launderette, a place where people could get a cold beer or play a hot game of eight ball while they waited for their clothes to dry. Akin opened the first Duds 'N Suds store, complete with pool table and bar, with a $120,000 loan from an Ames, Iowa, bank. Since then, Akin...
...talisman to stop his nightmares of plane crashes. But, ominously, the talisman breaks in a fight with Bob just before the real crash. In fact, to add to the melodrama. Valens ends up on the Buddy Holly-chartered plane which eventually crashes over Iowa only because he wins a coin toss--the first he has ever won in his life...