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...promised him $200 a month for life if he should be disabled by an accident but only three months' benefits if he became unable to work because of a "non-confining sickness." Egan, an Irish immigrant roofer, fell from a ladder in May 1970 and ruptured a disc. After receiving two checks from Mutual, he underwent surgery and was judged indefinitely disabled. Now, for the first time, the company called his injury a sickness, thus blocking the prospect of lifetime payments. Though Egan could leave his home-to visit a doctor, for example-he insisted that he was unable...
Buzz Bennett, known on the air as Captain Boogie, is a 32-year-old bushy-haired former disc jockey who dresses like an Old Western street freak, talks like a Madison Avenue adman and currently has a six-figure income. Bennett is a radio doctor-one of the top half a dozen itinerant programming consultants who specialize in transforming dull and unprofitable pop-music stations into listener-loaded moneymakers...
Right Vibes. Born in Pittsburgh, Bennett jockeyed his first disc at the age of 16 and has worked for 35 stations in his 16 years in the business. "I've never had a family," he says. "My home is where the radio towers are." Bennett's success is not entirely the result of his wily stunts, of course. He haunts record stores and pop concerts, and studiously keeps one hip ahead of ever-changing adolescent argot. He is also, as one client station's program manager notes, a "maniac" about listening to his listeners. At Bennett...
...life where one is seldom alone but usually lonely. There are plenty of men, but they are mostly grinning sycophants or lecherous disc jockeys. Yet it is almost impossible to retire; the thrill of recognition quickly becomes an opiate. "I wish I had an alter ego to hide in," says Bonnie Raitt. "This isn't the easiest way to spend one's 20s." Rock women seldom have successful marriages. The exceptions are Carole King, 33, and Carly Simon, 31, who have normal lives simply because they do not tour, and avoid the whole rock world. Known...
...that the Pinto, introduced barely four years ago at about $2,000, now sells for almost $3,000, even though a $66 cut was announced last week. A quarter of the nearly $1,000 increase is due to mandated federal equipment. Another quarter comes from such product improvements as disc brakes, solid state ignition and a bigger engine. The rest, says lacocca, "reflects only partial recovery of rising costs of labor and materials." He warns that by 1978 the Pinto will sell for "a little more than $5,000 -that's what will happen...