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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Giscard is aghast at the prospect of having to deal with left-wing ministers for the rest of his seven-year term. He urges Mitterrand to form a government that would include politicians who are not members of the leftist union. Mitterrand refuses, archly citing "a clear and precise contract" to carry out the left's common program-which calls for sweeping nationalization of private industry, big wage hikes and increased social benefits. Mitterrand, forming his Socialist-Communist Cabinet, appoints Communist Georges Marchais Minister of the Plan, a new post created to oversee the economy. President Jimmy Carter sends...
...that came out of those first sessions, That's All Right, Mama, became a substantial local hit. So did the next four singles. By the time the last, Mystery Train, was released, Presley had connected with a deadeye promoter named Colonel Tom Parker, who landed him a national contract with RCA Records for the outlandish sum of $35,000. In the winter of 1956, not six months after Mystery Train came out, Elvis Presley released Heartbreak Hotel and sent American popular culture into a collective delirium that came, after a while, to be called "the Rock...
...cannot tolerate obscenity. When he does a TV stint, Pryor must censor himself as he did in the years before his Las Vegas awakening. His friends, who think he should concentrate on movies, advised him against committing himself to the NBC series. Last spring Pryor tried to break his contract, or at least reduce his projected schedule. NBC, however, refused to let him out. Though he makes network brass as nervous as they make him, NBC is desperate for a hit. The Richard Pryor Show has been strategically placed in the same Tuesday night slot as ABC's Happy...
...increased production, as 85,000 workers in steel mills do. To U.S.W. officials in Pittsburgh, who gave their permission for locals at twelve mines to strike, whether any particular mill or mine grants incentive payments is a local issue, unrelated to the general wage level set by national contracts negotiated under ENA. To the companies, that argument is sophistry: in their view the miners simply want bigger raises than were granted by the national steel contract signed last spring, and that is an economic issue if there ever was one. Steel industry attorneys are in the process of preparing...
...kind of contemporary Boswell: "I haven't written anything that hasn't happened -God knows that in San Francisco you don't have to make it up." San Francisco suburbanites had their own serial in the Pacific Sun until its author, Cyra McFadden, got a book contract and published The Serial (Knopf; $4.95), a fast-selling, funny, 52-chapter account of Living Together Relationships and Creative Divorce Groups in Marin County...