Word: paycheck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glimpse of a crumpling block, a tooth-rattling tackle, or a precisely executed pass. Like a Broadway talent hunter who scours the chorus line for a budding star, the pro scout examines Saturday's heroes for the skill, size, strength and stamina that may be worth a Sunday paycheck. This week, prepared to back up their choices with cash in their annual draft, the scouts of both professional football leagues took time out to compile a team of the nation's best pro prospects. TIME's pro-picked All-America...
...that Fred, a Las Vegas jazz pianist, drew his first weekly paycheck, he immediately lost it in a poker game. "It seems as if I've been trying to get that week's pay back ever since," says Fred now, a quarter of a century later. As he floated from jazz joint to jazz joint around the U.S., Fred became a regular at the race tracks, crap tables and poker games. But he never won the week's pay back, succeeded only in blowing $75,000 more. He became hooked on alcohol and drugs, stole money from...
Once a friend volunteered to help bail him out of his debts if he would stop gambling. Fred's resolve lasted until he got his next paycheck, which he promptly lost in a crap game. "I was on a one-way train that had only two stops-suicide or death," says Fred. But he managed to jump off the train with the help of an organization called Gamblers Anonymous...
...Boost from the Fed. Looking ahead, Beise hopes to realize one of banking's cherished dreams: to abolish the paycheck. By teaming up IBM 7070s with ERMA, he plans to credit his bank employees' wages directly to their accounts, hopes the scheme will appeal to other companies for which his bank handles the payroll. Asks Beise: "Instead of printing checks for a company, which the employee has to deposit, why not print deposit slips...
...murder Majali had arrived at his bookstall from Syria innocuously labeled "press material." The two fugitive employees had dragged the bombs into the office building in suitcases the night before and set the fuses. One left the country by midnight. The other, said police, coolly collected his monthly paycheck at 8:30 a.m. before departing for what he said was his "vacation...