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...February 1977 he turned pro and began beating his way through the welterweight thicket on a course Manager Angelo Dundee had carefully laid to the championship. It started with Luis ("the Bull") Vega at the Civic Center in Baltimore. Most boxers start in four-round preliminaries, but Leonard's debut was a six-round main event and a $40,000 payday. It was televised nationally...
...board had overcome in preparing its appeal. In February, the council's conservative Independent faction and Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci denied City Manager Robert W. Healy funds to hire an outside attorney to file the appeal of Sherman's decision, despite the unified support of the four liberal Cambridge Civic Association councilors...
Manilow, in town to play before a sold-out Civic Center audience comprised largely of young girls and middle-aged women, brought the chorus on for an encore version of his hit single. "One Voice." The 35 chorus members, attired in red choir robes, danced around the perimeter of the circular, tiered stage while Manilow sang from the elevated middle...
...Everett, who is also an architect, laid down precise criteria: a building that would give Houston's skyline an identity and its downtown center a focal point. Says Everett: "We wanted a landmark, and we wanted a building that would be open to people and give them a civic space with a lot of public...
...business that now makes about 8 million cards daily, and $1 billion each year. Through exhaustive market research (which counseled against using peacocks, geraniums and the word mighty), he changed much of his line each year, inspecting each card himself and paternalistically overseeing the welfare of his employees. A civic-minded booster of his beloved Kansas City, he down-played his achievements, saying, as if for one of his cards, "Bragging isn't good manners...