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...conceivably add up to a total of 31 games (including semifinals and finals in East and West, plus a championship series). But though the players may be bored, their ribs aching, their elbows skinned and their noses bloody, they are not likely to squawk too loudly. Their combined payoff from the playoffs will total...
President Dwight Eisenhower in 1955 asked Congress for money for a nuclear-powered merchant vessel, partly for the technological payoff, partly to impress on the world U.S. interest in the peaceful atom. The 22,000-ton Savannah now stands the taxpayers nearly $47 million-about 50% more than a similar-sized, conventional ship. She will be able to cruise 300,000 nautical miles on a single fueling of her reactor. At first, the Savannah will be operated by the Maritime Administration as a sort of atomic-age tramp steamer, carrying up to 60 passengers and 10,000 tons of cargo...
...built in 1933, survived the Depression to become one of the nation's most successful small tracks: its parimutuel machines handle an average of $340,000 each day of the three-month winter meeting. Old-timers fondly recall the track's early years, when races were rigged, payoff prices were faked, and a nearby electrical shop offered specialties for jockeys: "A little battery to stimulate your own horse, or a dynamo big enough to electrocute the rest of the field...
...television, gave his program a sendoff by plunging a hypodermic needle into his own arm. The odds are heavily against Dr. Bjorklund's clinical trials, as they have been against those tried by scores of other cancer researchers. But against such a scourge as cancer, the possible payoff is proportionate to the odds...
...This is the biggest deal I have ever signed," crowed Scott. "To the best of my knowledge, it is the biggest such deal ever made." The deal: endorsement by the Yankee sluggers of a new line of men's and boys' clothing, named Mantle-Maris Wear. The payoff: a $45,000-a-year guarantee for each man for the next three years and a percentage of the sales...