Word: clearing
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Another prominent palimony target won a clear-cut victory last week. British Rock Star Peter Frampton, 28, had been sued by his onetime girlfriend Penny McCall, 30, for 50% of his earnings between 1973 and 1978, a half-interest in a 53-acre estate in Westchester County, N.Y., and a portion of his future income. But New York State Supreme Court Judge Joseph F. Gagliardi noted that the litigant had neglected to get divorced before moving in with Frampton. He threw the case out. Not to do so, he said, would be to condone adultery, still a crime...
More important, there is the enriching of his own character to consider in evaluating Manhattan. The basic Woody persona has always been a well-loved figure, a projection of the modern urban Everyman's privately held fantasies and terrors. Manhattan challenges that sense of instant identification, and makes clear just how much fictionalization Woody has practiced on himself...
When they sit down to bargain with the car and truck manufacturers this summer, the United Auto Workers intend to drive right over President Carter's wage guidelines. This was made clear by the 3,500 delegates who crammed Detroit's Cobo Hall last week for a special convention to sort out contract demands. Douglas Fraser, the U.A.W.'s blunt president, vowed to ignore the guides when negotiations begin on the new contract (the current one expires Sept. 14). Thundered Fraser: "The Teamsters bent the hell out of the guidelines. I don't believe the 7% is a reality...
...guidelines, drawn up by the Ad Hoc Committee on Consumer Responsibility (CCR), would empower the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) or some other "appropriate committee" to decide whether enough users oppose the product to warrant an official University boycott. If it is not clear how students back a boycott, the guidelines require the University to continue to buy the product, but also purchase an alternative product which boycotters...
...only clear thing about Monday's boycott, it seems, was the weather...