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...Last year, though the Vikings had a poor 4-9-1 season, he still passed for 2,561 yds. and led the Vikings to a 20-17 victory over the Green Bay Packers, one of only two games the world champions lost all year. He is known in the trade as a "scrambler," who would just as soon run as throw, who can turn a potential 10-yd. loss into a 50-yd. gain. He also has something that Joe Namath no longer has: a pair of sturdy knees...
...congressional liaison man for J.F.K. and L.B.J., Henry Hall Wilson Jr., 45, was a well-paid civil servant who earned $29,500 a year. Last week, when he accepted the presidency of Chicago's Board of Trade-the world's foremost commodity exchange-he got a raise of $70,500. His $100,000 salary reflects the fact that the commodities trading the 18-man board controls has just hit a record yearly volume of $81.4 billion...
...fairly be said that the Leipzig Trade Fair is an annual event-the one now in progress is the 802nd. But this year there is a new sound to the old show: while some 70 nations display their wares, Communists and capitalists alike are clamoring for increased East-West trade. Says Cristina Dimitriu, director of Rumania's exhibit: "We are now interested more in business than in propaganda." Says Poland's Natalia Czaplicka: "We will sell anything to anybody...
Furthermore, Reuther is a creative trade unionist. His bargaining demands are frequently full of innovations. He was one of the first to push for "escalator clauses," which insure that wages rise along with the cost of living. He has sought benefits for those whom he feels are "too old to work and too young to die." Some of these benefits include supplemental social security, medicare and elegant pension plans. He also was a forerunner in obtaining profit-sharing plans and is now atempting to win guaranteed annual wages for his auto workers. But he wants unions to go beyond bread...
...meet climaxed a season which saw the three Houses trade around the top three places until they eventually deadlocked, necessitating the playoff...