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...Foster's biggest payday an his worst beating. The right hand that knocked Dick Tiger cold bounced off the concrete jaw of Frazier...
Crisis of Costs. For their part, the companies complain that absenteeism runs as high as 10% on Mondays and Fridays and 15% the day after payday. Sabotage-paint scraped with screw drivers, upholstery slashed-is common. Numerous defects have roused consumer complaints about quality control. Automen complain that hourly pay and benefits have increased nearly three times as much as productivity since 1965. The resulting increase in the price of U.S. cars makes Detroit increasingly vulnerable to foreign competition, which now accounts for 13% of the U.S. market. As long ago as last February, G.M. Chairman James Roche...
Quincy sloshed in the mud with Lowell in the final contest, yet the cold rain prevented either side from ever reaching payday...
Outcasts. The mercenaries' salaries run from $1,700 a month upward. But payday is at best a sporadic affair in besieged Biafra. In any case, money is probably not the major reason for their presence. It is not the land, either, for they seem to have no eyes for the green rolling infinity of the African bush, the visionary sunsets, the humming, warm, smoky nights. They are lobos, outcasts from society who fight every day in order to taste the excitement that comes in living close to violent death. If they survive Biafra, they will doubtless drift...
...from the hard-baked Western soil in which the sport has its roots. A cross between the pioneer plow horse and the Mexican mustang, the quarter horse was bred for the short bursts of speed needed to herd cattle. To fill the lonesome hours, cowpokes began match-racing for payday stakes and, as one oldtimer put it, "if you couldn't whup the guy you beat, you didn't get your money." Before long, horsemen were organizing races at state and county fairs across the West. Whole herds of cattle were common stakes, and more than one ranch...