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...sitter to perch atop his resort's 45-ft. flagpole for a year. The perch was actually a 10-ft. by 10-ft. cabin complete with refrigerator, television, bed, stove, chemical toilet and telephone. The pay was not bad either: $1,000 a month, plus a $2,800 bonus if the sitter stayed up for the full year...
...Exxon Chairman John Jamieson's salary and bonus were reported to be $596,666 in 1973, not to mention his fringe benefits, which probably amount to plenty. Add to this the earnings of Exxon's other top executives. It appears that the increased fuel prices are necessary to maintain these ridiculous salaries, which the public is paying indirectly. Congress ought to stop this public gouging...
...Superstars. Twelve athletes (including) John Havlicek, Bob Seagren, Reggie Jackson and Karl Schranz) compete against each other in seven of ten events (golf, tennis, 100-yard dash, 100-meter swimming, etc.) for $3000 per event and a $25,000 bonus. Kyle Rote Jr. wins handly. Ch.5, 2 p.m. 2 hours...
...graduating from Dartmouth, he won a Fulbright scholarship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Moreover, Joseph Papp, one of the Fulbright judges, immediately cast him in his first professional role-as Octavius in a New York Shakespeare Festival production of Antony and Cleopatra. "I was a bonus baby," recalls Moriarty, "just like in baseball. I was a raw young talent with little technique and a lot of gall based on very weak foundations-which started to crumble when I got to England...
...Angers, which is the greatest surviving tapestry of the 14th century-and has never been lent to a museum, in or out of France, before. Treasure succeeds treasure: the elegant 15th century Winged Stags from Rouen, the crowded jigsaw scenes from the Trojan War, and-as a bonus-the two most famous allegorical cycles in all 15th century tapestry, here exhibited together for the first time: the Lady with the Unicorn series from the Cluny Museum in Paris and the Hunt of the Unicorn from the Cloisters in New York. Drawn from other collections as far apart as Leningrad, Brussels...