Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...income than journalism. Yet Louis heatedly denies any KGB connection and last week professed dismay at the Salisbury introduction. He had agreed to having Salisbury write one, then was upset on reading the result. He tried to have it removed from the book but was reminded that his contract gave him no such right. "At the very least, it is impolite," he complained to TIME'S Bruce Nelan. "They would not do this to an American author, so why do it to a Russian...
...cuspidors of traveling America. But he soon saw his mission. The outraged Pullman Co. tried to crush the movement; even Negro preachers and newspapers fulminated against the union. But for ten trying years, Randolph exhorted porters across the country. Finally, Pullman capitulated in 1937 and signed its first contract with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Randolph was confirmed in the affectionate title of "Chief...
...graceful denouement makes The Associates easier to finish, but it doesn't relieve the tedium. Osborn's choppy, five-page chapters seem destined for TV serialization. The all-encompassing theme, that life is like contract law, gives only superficial gloss and structure to a tame love story. When it's all over and done with, Osborn straddles the only issue he raises--is the Wall Street rat race worth it? Weston's friend, Littlefield, drops out only to land gloriously as a Yale Law School professor, and Weston and Newton, although they leave Bass and Marshall, still seem...
...final Nielsen ratings for the regular 1978-79 television season gave NBC its worst average in more than a decade. Johnny Carson, the brightest star in the insomniac firmament, was keeping network nabobs awake at night wondering whether he would indeed quit the Tonight Show before his contract runs out in April 1981. An embezzlement scandal was boiling, affiliate stations were restless and gossip was rampant. Parent Company RCA laid it all on the bottom line at its annual meeting last Tuesday. Referring to "the very low ratings of NBC programs over the past month to month and a half...
Meanwhile, other K-School administrators suggested a compromise that would not require the Corporation to change its contract with the Engelhard Foundation...