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...week doing "a lot of sweating" with their lawyer as they tried to figure out what to do with so much loot. By the time the couple surfaced, they had already bought a new Oldsmobile, planned on getting a new house and quit their jobs (he was a $320-a-week truck driver, she a $150-a-week dry-cleaning attendant). The rest would go to relatives, traveling and charities. Uh, Dear Mr. and Mrs. Kelly: You might be interested in learning more about this deserving writer currently employed in the scintillating but underpaid field of journalism whose byline...
...gridiron prison melodrama The Longest Yard (1974), and The Dirty Dozen (1967), which at the time sparked complaints about its relentless brutality; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles. Scion of a prominent New England family and a Rockefeller cousin, Aldrich rejected a banking career to start as a $25-a-week production clerk at RKO studios...
...quintessentially suburban San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, David, 21, was not reduced to stealing from his family to support his five-gram, $750-a-week habit. Instead, during six months last year, he embezzled $20,000 from the camera store where he worked. His thefts were discovered just before Thanksgiving, but the police were not called, and David's father repaid the $20,000. David cannot figure it. "I was the all-American kid who had never been in trouble," he says. "I was popular. I taught religion classes at the synagogue. How could a well-brought...
...another key figure in the historic incident is serving time: Frank Wills, the $80-a-week night-shift security guard who discovered the Watergate break-in and called police. Wills, 35, has been unemployed and living with his mother in North Augusta, S.C. Last week Wills was convicted just across the state line in Augusta, Ga., of shoplifting shoes. He said they were to be a gift for his son, 15. In any case, unlike almost all of the Watergate criminals. Wills got the maximum jail sentence: twelve months for stealing a $12 pair of sneakers...
...improvement in their own lives because of the drop in inflation and interest rates, and they are all too aware of high unemployment and rising bankruptcies. But they differ widely on how much to blame Reagan and his party, if at all. Brenda Pace, who lost her $300-a-week job as a supervisor at Hudson's department store in Detroit, delivers a two-word verdict on Reaganomics: "It stinks...