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Friendly Lizards. To reward its revolutionaries, AID tries to better an applicant's stateside salary and then adds a 25% Viet Nam bonus; group-health, life-insurance and leave benefits are the same as for other foreign-service workers, and allowances are paid for families that must be left at home. Volunteers are warned that a job in the boondocks could be dangerous - nine AID men have been killed by the Viet Cong, eleven wounded and two kidnaped. Even so, commented one recruiter, "It's probably safer working there than crossing Times Square...
Just One Hit. "Do you know any Polish jokes?" goes an old baseball line, and the answer is "Yes, Moe Drabowsky." Drabowsky was born in Ozanna, Poland, came to the U.S. when he was three, attended Trinity College in Connecticut, and collected a $75,000 bonus for signing with the Chicago Cubs. So far, so good. But he has since bounced around nine teams, and until this season, when he compiled a 6-0 record in relief for the Orioles, his most noteworthy achievement was getting his name in the record book-for hitting four batters in one game...
...Matty Alou, plus timely hitting: in one game they spotted Atlanta a 5-1 lead and roared back to win 8-6. The Dodgers had Koufax, who breezed to his 25th victory (and fourth in a row), an 11-1 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies. They got a bonus in the return to form of Don Drysdale, who looked like his old overpowering self when he shut out the Chicago Cubs 4-0. At week's end the Dodgers were leading the Pirates by H games, the Giants by 4. But it was still anybody's pennant...
...experiment clearly proved that tethered spaceships can orbit in formation without wasting fuel. Robert Gilruth, director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, immediately conjured up "colonies of vehicles fastened together in ways like this." The slow rotation of the system also provided a bonus: a small centrifugal force that acted like a weak gravitational pull, causing objects to drift toward and finally "fall" on the rear wall of Gemini's cabin. It was the first artificial gravity created during a manned orbital flight. After three hours of tethered orbiting, Conrad flipped a switch that jettisoned Gemini...
...intended to drive manpower from the service industries, which have attracted seven times as many workers as other branches of industry since 1960, and channel them into manufacturing, thereby increasing desperately needed exports. This is to be done by taxing service industries for each employee and giving a bonus to manufacturing industries for each employee...