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...payoff in any teacher education program," said Conant succinctly, "is in the classrooms of local school districts...
Could he come over? He could indeed. The President sent his own plane to intercept Reston and his wife in Dallas, and as a Johnsonian joke drafted Bill Mauldin as copilot. The President thoroughly relished the gag's payoff: Reston did not recognize Mauldin (TIME Cover, July 21, 1961*), and let the cartoonist carry his luggage...
Such large awards are rare, though insurance companies claim that the highly publicized examples raise the average size of all awards and settlements. What bothers the underwriters more than the occasional big payoff is the widespread evidence of fraud. In one macabre conspiracy, a Los Angeles man arranged to have a friend push his car off a cliff, smash both his legs with a padded brick, and place him and his drugged wife beside the wreck. "No one would ever believe that I was crazy enough," boasted the man; the plot was uncovered-and the conspirators jailed-only because...
With Burton's divorce two weeks ago, Eddie's usefulness ended; and Elizabeth Taylor almost immediately began to complain to the press that Fisher was in the way, that he was slowing things up, and that he was holding out for a payoff of more than...
...swept through a village, rounding up peasants suspected of being guerrillas; some of the men had been found crouching together, unable to explain why they were not out in the fields working. One offered a soldier 1,000 piasters ($13.60) to set him free; the soldier gladly accepted the payoff, then tagged the captive with a white scarf identifying him as a probable Viet Cong. Shirts were stripped from backs to check for the guerrilla's telltale marks of pack straps. Forty-five minutes later, the helicopters were headed back to Saigon with a haul of 14 prisoners...