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...normal. The overall contract package, including increases in wages and welfare provisions, cost General Motors 22? an hour per worker compared to 20? an hour for the Ford package. Reuther, it turned out, had been somewhat optimistic in predicting to his union delegates a substantially bigger payoff from G.M. than from Ford...
Jean tossed off quidnunc; Sandra got verisimilitudinous. Jean got boucle, and Sandra managed baccalaureate. Then Jean spelled cumaphyte with a "cumo," but Sandra missed with a "cume." Finally, the big break came. Jean spelled abbacy "abbosy," and Sandra got it right. The payoff word: crustaceology. C-R-U-S-T-A-C, said Sandra (pause), E-(pause), OLOGY. "The winner!" cried Pronouncer Alleman-and after the usual flurry of congratulations, a stunned but happy Sandra withdrew with her family for a big dish...
Kramer's suggestions for cleaning up the game are straightforward enough: get the payoff above the table. Hold open tournaments and let both amateurs and pros compete for prize money, "as clean and candid a reward as there is." In Wiesbaden, Germany last week, where this year's crop of "amateurs" were competing in another tournament, Kramer's plan was cheered. "Every one of us in this tournament is paid, and if we weren't, you can be damned sure there wouldn't be a one of us here," said one player. "What...
Before the bell, there was an anxious wait for 1) the payoff on a major U.S. gamble that Red China would turn down the U.N. invitation to discuss ceasefire, and 2) agreement between the U.S. and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on defense of the offshore islands...
...whole have tended to fall, while the price of manufactures (which Britain has for sale) has risen correspondingly. But Britain also owes much to its Tory government, which accepted most of the welfare measures inherited from the Socialists, while reducing their freedom-clogging restrictions on business initiative. The payoff was last week's Board of Trade report: Britain's exports in 1954 hit an alltime high of $7.5 billion...