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...hits. The Dodgers have offered $105,000 to Koufax (who made $70,000 last season) and $95,000 to Drysdale (who made $75,000), are willing to haggle some more on money. On the other two issues, they feel that they cannot afford to yield. No one gets more than a one-year contract in baseball, largely because it is impossible to know how long any player will last. As for the tandem negotiating, Dodgers Owner Walter O'Malley says...
Students are also dissatisfied with the one-year Master of Arts in Teaching program. Terry Van Brunt, another of the students involved in the reform movement, said that a great number of MAT graduates leave teaching after a single year. "Harvard's not training teachers" he said," who are equipped with the experience and know-how to cope with the conditions they face in the schools...
...Corporation voted Monday to extend Bullitt a one-year leave-of-absence to take the job. He said yesterday that next year he will "almost certainly ask for a second year off" to continue his assignment...
...grand finale to two hellish weeks of elimination rounds in which 38 young conductors from 20 countries competed for a handsome reward: $5,000 for each of four first-prize winners plus a one-year contract as assistant conductors of either the New York Philharmonic or the National Symphony in Washington. The competition was unbearable; indeed, as the pressure mounted, some of the entrants seemed a bit teched. One shaggy-maned candidate continually roamed the hallways, humming and conducting an imaginary orchestra with all the jabbing vigor of a shadowboxer; another, never without his trusty baton, sat in on bull...
...still in the talking stage, most insurance companies protested that the Federal Government was proposing a massive raid on their territory. Once they found that they couldn't lick medicare, many insurance men decided to join it. For months, dozens of private companies have been competing for one-year renewable contracts, under which they would become "fiscal intermediaries" between the Government and the nation's 6,471 registered hospitals when medicare goes into effect. Last week, pronouncing the occasion "the beginning of a partnership of great promise," Health, Education and Welfare Department Secretary John W. Gardner awarded...