Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Never before had a U.S. President been shot and recovered to appear before Congress. Rarely, if ever, had the Secret Service felt the need to post an agent at the President's side as he worked his way slowly through the cheering House chamber. And on only a few occasions had a President enjoyed such a shouting, clapping, emotional reception from the assembled lawmakers. Reagan's voice was thin and hoarse, but his complexion was ruddy. He deftly turned his own recuperation into a powerful plea for his prescription for curing the nation's economic ills...
...Lorean still exudes the brash self-assurance he displayed in 1973, when he walked out of a $650,000-a-year executive post at staid General Motors to create his own auto company. To finance his factory, he approached rival governments like a baseball free agent dickering with club owners. The U.S. Government offered him $65 million in loan guarantees if his plant were built in Puerto Rico, but De Lorean took $114 million in loans and grants from Britain to make his cars near economically depressed Belfast in Northern Ireland...
DIED. William Meiklejohn, 78, Hollywood talent agent who during his 60 years as a scout, first for vaudeville and later for Paramount Pictures, used his self-avowed "seventh sense" to discover and promote such stars as Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball and, in 1937, a young sportscaster in Des Moines named Ronald Reagan; after surgery for a perforated ulcer; in Burbank, Calif...
That scheme, so far untested, requires a team signing a "ranking" free agent to compensate the player's former club with a man of its own. (Ranking players are defined as those in the top half of the league in number of batting or pitching appearances.) Each club could, however, protect a number of its stars from being grabbed as compensation. The players abhor that plan more than night games in April because it presumably would make owners less eager to sign free agents, thus driving down their market price. Complains Marvin Miller, the players' union chief...
...year-old son Paul (Brian Backer) has a sky-high IQ and plays truant to go to magic shows. Abysmally lonely, he retreats to his room to polish his own legerdemain, as Allen's boy figure did in the film Stardust Memories. Running into a flyweight booking agent (Jack Weston), Enid wheedles him into auditioning Paul. Terrified, the boy flubs a few tricks and becomes ill. In a total tangent, Enid and the agent embark on a bittersweet mating waltz that ends sourly...