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...fattest TV deal in history. Last week National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle presented to the annual meeting of owners a $2 billion television contract that goes beyond spectacular almost all the way to embarrassing. For the next five years, each of the 28 teams in the league will be compensated by ABC, NBC and CBS at an average of $14.2 million per season-up from about $5.8 million...
Baby Love sits on the stoop, rolling the largest, fattest joint in the world. He wastes little: in go twigs, seeds, everything, until it seems as big as a torpedo. Other joints are tucked over each ear, and more are secreted in plastic bags under his hat. It is Friday night, the night to get high, get drunk and strut. Baby Love's entire wrecking crew is here, sprawled over cars, squatting on the sidewalk, jiving. There is Shistang ("He be cool with dice"), Little Spank, Gugu, Snake Eyes, Shilo, Spider Man, Daddy Rich, Little June, Snatch Pocket Earl...
...Zimmer did show up at the ballpark yesterday in a ten-gallon hat ("I'm probably the world's fattest cowboy"--Zimmer), but it wasn't even his. And while the 26,000 fans gave the man who really does look like a gerbil a rude welcome. Zip held court for over an hour, talking to reporters and broadcasters in the Texas dugout...
Sales of cars would slide still farther. The biggest vehicles, which produce the fattest profits for manufacturers and dealers, would be the worst hurt. Small cars would increase their market share, which now is more than 50%. Among Detroit's Big Three, ailing Chrysler Corp. would fare the worst. Though 70% of its cars are compacts and downsized models, vs. 50% of Ford's and 30% of GM's, small vehicles are the least profitable, and the company would have to boost output sharply to remain competitive. That would be a difficult step for Chrysler to take...
...timing especially annoyed CCLA brass: the offer came before Coke-L.A. could release its third-quarter sales and earnings figures. These are usually the year's fattest because of summer soft-drink consumption. CCLA's sales last year were $165 million, v. $141 million in 1975; earnings rose to $11 million from $9 million. Coke-L.A. even filed suit to stop the takeover bid, charging that it was illegal because MCA began buying shares of CCLA before filing appropriate documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Trading in CCLA was indeed furious: through the last...