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...Villages, a move that could hike his contract by as much as $3 million. The L.A.O.O.C. has so far refused to comply. If there is no agreement before the Games, Gates has vowed he will station the extra guards anyway and send the L.A.O.O.C. the bill. Says William Booth, a Gates aide: "Let the lawyers decide the issue later. But there will be adequate security...
...ballots listing the official slate of candidates and dropped them into the large white-and-red box without a moment's hesitation. But one elderly man insisted on his right to consider alternative choices, noting that "nobody buys a cat in a bag." As he stepped into the booth conspicuously provided for that purpose, amused polling officials heard him sarcastically exclaim as he marked his ballot, "What a surprise! They even provide pencils to cross out these names...
Branson is new to the airline business. A school dropout at 15, he started by selling advertising from a phone booth for his own youth-market magazine, Student. Today his bustling $200 million empire includes pop and rock records, videos, discos, film production and retail music outlets...
...start the Daytona Beach Firecracker 400 stock-car race by telephone from Air Force One. The President's jet is scheduled to land at the airport within camera range of the track, and if all goes smoothly, the onetime sportscaster might even climb into the announcer's booth and call a few laps. Smiles a Reagan campaign official: "That ought to be seen at some point by millions of good, solid, Middle Americans." But that is nothing. Some 2 billion are expected to see him as he opens the Olympic Games in a flag-waving extravaganza on July...
Those who endorsed the government's first choice for candidacies had only to pick up their ballot and deposit it in a box, while those who selected the official second choice or decided to write in a name had to enter a curtained voting booth...