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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three of the board's seven blacks and all four of the whites then voted to dismiss Sizemore. When it became clear that she would not quit, the board voted last week to offer her two one-year consulting contracts totaling $50,000 if she would leave quietly and drop the remaining 14 months of her $41,700-a-year contract. At week's end, Sizemore was considering the offer...
Meanwhile, the school system is in suspended animation: administrative jobs are vacant, a teachers' contract remains to be negotiated, next year's budget has not yet been sent to Congress, and now a new superintendent evidently must be hired. Says School Budget Director Ed Winner: "If this board found Jesus Christ under a bushel basket, he would have trouble here next year...
...group came up with a hit single, Every Beat of My Heart, but it was not until 1966 that they landed a Motown recording deal. With almost all the top black songwriting and performing talent under contract, Motown encouraged rabid in-house competition. To keep its producers busy, all Motown's artists often recorded the same songs, knowing that only one version would be released...
...gospel album long before Aretha," says Gladys, "and Berry saved the soft songs for Diana Ross." But in 1967 a catchy soul rocker, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, sailed onto the charts for the Pips. Two other singles had scored for them by the time their Motown contract expired in 1973, and they quickly made a deal with Buddah Records...
Butter Cutter. Meanwhile, they gross between $30,000 and $50,000 a concert, have an eight-week contract with the Las Vegas Hilton and spend lucrative summer weeks playing theaters and supper clubs. Last fall Gladys, now 31, married her second husband, Barry Hankerson, an executive assistant to Detroit Mayor Coleman Young. He calls her by her middle name, Maria-Gladys, after all, is a show business celebrity. In the industry there is some gossip that success has already created a wedge in the Pips' solidarity. "When vocal groups are hungry, you can't split 'em with...