Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countries by radio, Telex and Teletype. Key to this network, which handled 118,000 messages last year, are Interpol's branch offices, called National Central Bureaus. The bureaus are manned by local police whose sole job is trading Interpol information with other bureaus and with Saint-Cloud. One payoff for Americans: interdiction of the narcotics pipeline that runs from Turkish farmers to French labs to New York pushers-pushing the price of an illicit kilo of opium from $500 to as much as $400,000 worth of heroin along the way. "Thanks to marvelous harmony between the world...
...military insist that the program has a payoff for them. "The more people come to share the barracks life with our troops, the more deeply will our organization be understood," says General Shoji Wada, commander of the central Japan military district. Company executives see an even more practical gain. In army camps, says Toshio Shiba-yama, director of Tokyo Mutual, "young people are bound to learn something about the vital importance of team work." This spring, for the third year in a row, Japan Air Lines sent its new crop of employees to an artillery camp. Company President Shizuma Matsuo...
Theaters of Action. The first payoff was a chance to audition for the U.S. film, The War Lover. He was given 24 hours to acquire an American accent, spent the night steeping himself in an album by a comic named Woody Woodbury. The jokes, recalls Crawford, were awful, but his accent was bang-on and he got the part. Next came his West End debut in the comedy Come Blow
...Payoff. As Percy presented the bill on the Senate floor, he had the physical backing of 250 Illinois campaign workers and supporters. As a candidate, Percy had promised them a free trip to Washington if they delivered. Last week he paid off with a two-day itinerary that included not only the Senate session but a briefing by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a coq au vin dinner with serenades by two musical groups. The celebration cost Percy $15,625 and won him the reputation of a man who delivers on his promises-to slum dwellers and party stalwarts alike...
Harvard killed the first minute of B.U.'s potent power play, which has a 37 per cent payoff rate this season. But at two minutes even, co-captain Pete McLachlan shot the puck in from the right point to Mike Sobeski. Sobeski's drive was blocked but trickled through to Crimson nemesis Fred Bassi, who swung the puck in from the crease...