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King, 51, is enjoying the fruits of a long climb up the broadcasting ladder. Born Larry Zeiger in Brooklyn, the son of a neighborhood bar-and-grill owner, he broke into radio literally at the bottom, sweeping the floors at a small station in Miami. He soon became a disk jockey and by age 25 was doing his own morning talk show from Pumpernik's restaurant. A variety of financial problems interrupted his radio career in the early 1970s. But in 1978, Mutual offered him a job as host of a fledgling all-night talk show. Starting with just...
...digging them out with their hands. "It was a miracle we all survived," says Nasima. Many people didn't: the official death count in the area reached 500 last week, and as soldiers and international relief organizations moved in to clear the debris, the overall toll was expected to climb to 1,300, United Nations relief officials said on Friday...
What will my Vietnamese hosts think when they see me get off the plane with crutches and a cast? They don't need the burden of a disabled American descending on them--and how am I going to climb over the earthen dikes that I am coming to film...
...have 162 seats in the House of Commons to Labour's 408, and an ICM poll two weeks ago showed Labour leading 40% to 32%. Couple these numbers with the vagaries of the British first-past-the-post voting system, and Howard is staring at one big mountain to climb by election day. And last week, a few medium-sized boulders thumped down onto his path, courtesy of his own team. The Tories' deputy chairman, Howard Flight, was taped at a Conservative meeting saying that the party's announced tax-cutting plans - pegged at a modest $7.5 billion to deflect...
...program continues to climb the ranks on the national scene, so too does its reputation...