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...Best Actress for her part in Tommy. "You owe me six weeks' pay at $1,100 a week," insisted Burns, now 80, referring to AM's broken contract. Then accepting three quick smooches from his ex-protegee, now 34, generous George reconsidered. "The kisses," he smiled, "cancel the debt...
...flights because they are on average half-filled and must take off on schedule. The disadvantage of O.T.C.s is that the traveler must book well in advance; 15 days for North America, Mexico and the Caribbean; 30 days for all other destinations. Moreover, he forfeits his payment if he cancels after a certain period (though low-cost insurance is available to cover the loss if he drops out). Worse, if the packager cannot sign up enough customers he may cancel the flight 15 or 30 days in advance; if so, the passenger's payment must be refunded...
...Downstate Medical Center, had planned to take 25 kidney patients on a European holiday in 1974, dialyzing them at stopovers en route. But at the last minute, medical authorities in Copenhagen concluded that they did not have enough dialysis machines to handle so many additional patients. Forced to cancel the trip, Friedman resolved to build a dialysis machine that kidney patients could carry on their travels and operate by themselves...
...television audiences-and the cost of advertising-grew, the inevitable drive to improve profits led Paley to increase the number of popular entertainment shows. The distinguished weekly documentary See It Now with Edward R. Murrow, for example, was often shunted from one time slot to another and finally canceled. Paley, says Halberstam, found it too controversial and not profitable enough. In 1972, says Halberstam, Paley intervened in newsroom decision making in a more chilling way. He tried to cancel the second segment of an Evening News report on Watergate, the result of White House pressure. The report finally...
...tried to prevent King's audience with Pope Paul VI in September 1964. Using New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman as a conduit, the agency sent disparaging word of King's morals to the Pope, but he did not cancel the audience. The FBI also tried to persuade two universities to withdraw honorary degrees that they planned to award to King. It is not known if they complied...