Word: paid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former draftee, I know only too well that the present draft system is imperfect and that servicemen are greatly underpaid. But is a highly paid volunteer army really the answer? I think not-the opinion of my political hero William Buckley to the contrary...
...Olympic ranges. But the cherished countryside is disappearing, being swallowed up by grim housing developments whose sewers overflow with every heavy rain, scarred by highways that are often choked with cars, and blotched by grey industrial "parks." This is one toll of urbanization, and the price is being paid by prosperous cities across the U.S. Unlike most other cities, however, Seattle is doing something about the mess mainly because one man refused to put up with...
...masked and gloved strangers have long since departed, but they left some mementos behind. Four Geiger counters run continuously, and a villager is paid $66 a month to take daily readings. Other towns will buy no milk, produce or meat from Palomares, despite government assurances that the goods are untainted. Half of the town's 2,000 people have left for jobs elsewhere...
...June 1967, Grant B. Cooper flew to Danang to win acquittal for a Marine sergeant charged with murdering a Vietnamese civilian. The boy's parents paid his fee, but the grizzled lawyer picked up the air fare. When somebody asked him why he went all the way to a battle zone halfway round the world, Cooper replied: "I've never defended a man in a military court before." Most probably he took on the Sirhan case-without pay-because he had never defended an accused assassin before...
...rival Captain Bullwinkle to salvage jobs in Puget Sound; C. S. Forester's Midshipman (or Captain, or Commodore) Hornblower managed to leave himself in such parlous plight at the end of each installment that Post readers could not wait to get at next week's issue. Lorimer paid beautifully: $6,000 for a short story, $60,000 for a serial...