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...haven't made a dent in any of my debts yet," protested Watergate Witness John Dean last week. "I don't even know when one receives money after a lecture. I imagine it will be months before it comes in." Though he is pleading poverty, Dean has announced that he will end his five-week lecture tour on March 15. Not even offers of $6,000 per speech, which he claims to have received, will keep Richard Nixon's old nemesis from abandoning the college circuit. Instead, Dean plans to begin work on a book about Watergate...
...coaches and teachers overtime and had to cancel all after-school sports, drama, music and forensics programs, everybody pitched in to help. The coaches agreed to work one year without overtime pay, and private donations of $70,000 rescued some of the cultural programs. That barely put a dent in the board's $4 million deficit, but Rock Impresario Bill Graham may yet save the day. He has scheduled a benefit concert of ten major acts (including the Jefferson Starship, Joan Baez and Santana) in the city's 59,626-seat Kezar Stadium. The concert, on March 23, is called...
...monotonous, and when Getty decided to move permanently from England to his Malibu, Calif., estate this spring, he took his life in his hands. "I will go on a jumbo," he said with bravado, "and I shall probably treat myself to a first-class ticket," which should not dent his fortune, once estimated as $1.5 billion. The usually secretive Getty was surprisingly carefree: "I don't intend to take any pills and I don't drink much-just a glass of wine. Alcohol was never one of my problems...
...Harvard mentor literally cleared his bench, a pleasure which he has been afforded on few occasions this season. As a result of this gesture the Bulldogs were able narrowly to decrease the lead, and in addition every Crimson performer made a dent on the scoring sheets...
Murder or Accident. Union officials were suspicious about her fatal car crash; they called in an independent accident investigator, A.O. Pipkin of Dallas. After inspecting the skid marks and finding a telltale dent in one of the Honda's rear fenders, he concluded that a second car had forced Silkwood's auto off the road-thus implying that Silkwood might have been murdered. But the Oklahoma state highway patrol cited an autopsy showing that her blood contained traces of alcohol and methaqualone, which a doctor had prescribed as a sedative. To the police, it seemed evident that...