Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frank Berardino, Copy Quik's vice-president, said yesterday he thought the burglars--who he said damaged only the most essential equipment in the store--might have been disgruntled ex-employees or agents of a competitor...
Divorced. Linda Lovelace, 22, exuberant blue-movie star of Deep Throat whose name quickly became a courtroom, if not a household word; and Charles Traynor, 35, her former business manager who now handles Lovelace's No. 1 competitor, Ivory Snow Girl Marilyn Chambers (Behind the Green Door); after three years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Lovelace, who earned $175 a day for her Throat role, has recently been negotiating contracts on the order of about $35,000 a week as a nightclub performer. Her most recent appearance in Las Vegas may lead to a six-year...
Harvard sophomore Gordon Adler had really been ready for 1974. As a fresh-man, this feisty competitor battled his way onto the Carnival teams, and now he was in the second seed. For Friday's race he drew starting spot 14 out of 70 plus competitors. Amidst the downpour, Adler with his rimless spectacles looked like a scholarly water rat, as the took the lift up the mountain to get ready for his start...
...proper promotion, exposure and packaging," he says. Geffen is able to sign and retain big-name stars by giving them generous royalties (as much as 15%, about double the industry average), allowing them considerable artistic freedom and establishing warm personal friendships. "He romances them," says a New York-based competitor. Sometimes quite literally: Geffen used to squire Laura Nyro...
...YORK's new governor recently proposed that the state take over the numbers game there, or, at any rate, establish a competitor to it. Coupled with the already existent Off-Track Betting Commission, it will provide the state with a solid front in its efforts to muscle in on formerly illegal activity. The aim, of course, is to cut taxes. Everybody in state government wants to cut taxes. Taxes are way too high. Of course, by and large, it's the well-off who pay the taxes. The poor just play the numbers. So the state figures it might...