Word: one-year
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giving him a one-year rather than two-year appointment...
...helped make him one of the richest ballplayers in the game. In fact, by 1966 he was in so comfortable a financial position that he and Koufax were able to hold out for an unprecedented dual contract for $1,000,000 over three years (Drysdale eventually settled for a one-year, $115,000 contract...
...dangerous. Nixon asked Congress to impose stiff penalties for violations, and to make federal drug-abuse law more consistent. Now the penalty for sale of marijuana is two to ten years in prison for a first offender, while sale of the far more dangerous LSD carries only a maximum one-year term. The Administration asked Congress to set from five to 20 years as the penalty for sale of both drugs. It will also propose a uniform law for the 50 states...
Building Belief. Depression is most likely to afflict the wives of servicemen if they think that their husband's absence is pointless. Navy Rear Admiral John M. Alford, a personnel expert who conducted a recent one-year survey of Navy life, says that when the tone of a husband's letters about his work changes from eagerness to boredom, wives swing from resolution to discouragement. So far, no systematic study has been made on the effects of wifely missives. New Haven Psychiatrist Houston Macintosh found that the spouses of Air Force men, virtually all of whom volunteer...
...regimental landing team, some men began packing their bags. Many were already nearing the end of their tour; others still had several months to serve. Fighting in a war of attrition, in which kill ratios are more important than territorial objectives, they have come to believe that their one-year tour of duty is something to be endured. For most, personal survival is victory enough. Thus, for the ones ticketed to leave, a kind of happy ending to this formless, ferocious war has approached...