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...personal life and seeing my kids grow up," he explained, after announcing his intention to step down as leader of the Liberal Party. "And for three weeks," he added, "I'd begun enjoying my new life." He had received a number of job offers, including an $80,000-a-year lectureship in the U.S. And though his estranged wife Margaret, 31, had bought a house in Ottawa and looked after the children during the campaign, friends say that there is almost no chance of a reconciliation...
...after 18 years as TV's avuncular anchor, Walter Cronkite was talking retirement-even though his current $600,000-a-year contract with CBS Evening News has another year to run and his commitment to the network as nonretirable talent is unchanged. Some telegossips said Walter wanted out; others suggested he was helping CBS retain Probable Successor Dan Rather, who was being heavily wooed by ABC. Either way Cronkite could certainly leave with honorable profit in other fields...
...families of figure skaters often find the $20,000-a-year cost of renting rinks and hiring coaches a crushing expense. From their mid-teens, skiers and speed skaters live nearly half of each year as expatriates, training and racing in Europe because facilities or competitors are not up to par in the U.S. Unheralded by their countrymen, they are idolized abroad, where youngsters collect their pictures on bubble-gum cards and the monied denizens of Alpine resorts ask for their autographs. A U.S. sports fan who can routinely tick off the starting outfield of the Kansas City Royals would...
...corner will gather big ratings. It marks a comeback of sorts for the lady, who became a target of Gay Lib and comics' glib three years ago after mounting a righteous antihomosexual crusade that gained national attention. The singer, who lives in Miami Beach, retained her $100,000-a-year contract to promote Florida's citrus industry, but her orange juice commercials were yanked temporarily, and other jobs proved scarce. "I was blacklisted and put down for what I believed in," she says. "People finally realized that I was being mistreated." The TV show, produced by Anita Bryant...
...General Motors (Wright Enterprises; $12.95) was written by J. Patrick Wright, former Detroit bureau chief of Business Week. But by all accounts it is drawn from the words of John Z. (for Zachary) DeLorean, a 17-year GM veteran who abruptly quit a $650,000-a-year job as group executive for cars and trucks in 1973. DeLorean, now 54, had a good shot at the GM presidency. But apparently his fast life, long hair and penchant for marrying young women (thrice) and divorcing them (twice) did not fit the GM mold...