Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mannequin Fats, whom his agent (Burgess Meredith) calls "the first X-rated dummy on the block," is everything Corky is not -- bossy, crude, with a mouth that should be washed out with Pine-Sol. The crowds love him, and Corky seems headed for the top and a T.V. contract -- until, inexplicably, he balks at taking a medical exam required by the network. Panicked by his agent's reassurances that he's only scared of success, Corky flees with Fats to the Catskills, where he grew up, partly to reminisce and partly to look up Peggy Ann (Ann-Margret), the girl...
...Washington negotiations concerns Sinai oil. With unrest spreading in Iran, which supplies 40% of Israel's oil, Jerusalem wants to make sure it has an ironclad agreement to buy Sinai oil from Egypt. It also wants the Neptune Oil Co., a U.S. firm that currently has an Israeli contract to pump oil in the Sinai, to continue to do so. Egypt has refused to deal with Neptune, arguing that the company is working the Sinai fields illegally. Complicating these negotiations is the fact that they are tied to simultaneous bargaining over Israeli troop withdrawal from the Sinai...
...figure skater, and he became the biggest attraction in hockey history. He was also one of the cleanest players in the game. In 1972 he joined the Winnipeg Jets in the new World Hockey Association and immediately became both its most solid asset and most expensive liability: his contract gave him a reported $2.75 million over a ten-year period. But age inevitably slowed his stride, and despondent over his recent divorce, he quit after 22 years in hockey. In 1,447 games, he had scored 1,012 goals (second only to Gordie Howe), drilled home 50 or more goals...
...Bruins to two Stanley Cup titles and then, his knees already battered, went to the Black Hawks in 1976. He was still better than most, but he was not himself. His contract called for a salary of $600,000 a year, yet he had not cashed a single paycheck when he quit last week after seven operations had failed to save his knees. He refused to be paid unless he delivered, and Bobby Orr, like Tunney and Hull, always delivered the best...
Although she criticized the networks for paying former President Gerald R. Ford and former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 salaries for news for commentary, she defended her own acceptance of a multi-million dollar contract as a result of "supply and demand." Walters accepted no fee for last night's lecture, co-sponsored by the Law School Forum and Harvard Business School Women's Student Association...