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...Before he was finally counted out at 2 min. 51 sec. of the fourth round, McNeeley had hit the canvas eleven times (two were ruled "slips" by Referee Jersey Joe Walcott), sported a nearly closed eye and a raw strawberry that covered his entire right cheek. The estimated payoff: Patterson. $300,000; McNeeley...
...Belated Payoff. The dip in labor costs has occurred primarily because overall productivity has risen faster during this recovery than in the past two recovery periods. Since 1947 the productivity of nonagricultural workers in the U.S. has increased by an average of 3% a year, rising in recovery periods to 7.5%. But in this year's economic bounce-back, productivity has soared by a remarkable annual rate of 9.5%. Chief explanation of this sudden leap, Government economists believe, is that industry is finally beginning to reap the rewards of its free-spending investment in new plant, equipment and research...
...such a climate, the first Peace Corpsmen are very much on trial. "You will make or break the Peace Corps," Sarge Shriver told the pioneers in a final briefing. "The payoff will come out there where you're working. You'll be watched like no Americans abroad have ever been watched before in history. In some places Peace Corpsmen will be the first Americans who have arrived without guns on their shoulders. The President is counting on you. It's up to you to prove that the concepts and ideals of the American Revolution are still alive...
...authority had been weakened. But the Met had survived the crisis, had lost only one singer and the season would open on schedule on Oct. 23 with Leontyne Price in Puccini's Girl of the Golden West. It was unlikely that either management or musicians, whatever the possible payoff, would ever walk so near the brink of a canceled season again...
...payoff on these conservative policies is the best profit record in the appliance industry. Though its sales last year ($109.6 million) put it only 373rd on FORTUNE'S list of the top 500 U.S. corporations, Maytag ranked 19th in profits on invested capital (21.2%). This year the company controlled costs so well that second-quarter earnings were up 33% even though sales remained almost identical...