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...Portugal prepared for its first parliamentary election in half a century, the Socialist show of strength was only one of 1,000 political rallies held in a single day-no mean feat considering the country's 8.5 million population. That the campaign was under way at all was a measure of the changes wrought in the past five months. Until the abortive left-wing coup last November, Portugal frequently seemed on the verge of a Communist dictatorship. That danger has now virtually disappeared...
...Bionic Woman's most impressive feat may have been the deal she wrung out of Universal, the show's producer. Her contract gives her $500,000 a year for five years, a guarantee of one film role annually and 12½% of the take from sales of Bionic dolls, T shirts and other spinoffs, which her agent insists could total as much as $2 million. Only last fall, Wagner, 26, was having trouble at Universal, which decided not to renew a $50,000-a-year contract she then had with the studio. Although she was considered "promising...
...this represents a sharp change from Udall's relatively lonely position in 1974. That was when he started out for the presidency, a feat not accomplished from the House since James Garfield did it in 1880. Udall began campaigning around the country, mainly in the Northern primary states like New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York and Wisconsin. He badly flubbed his organizing of Iowa, the first caucus state, and virtually ignored the South. Still, his early start, unflagging drive and shrewd campaigning attracted a good volunteer organization, the backing of Democratic intellectuals like Harvard Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, and many...
Hired as William Butler Yeats' secretary, he helped persuade the poet to adopt the direct, plain manner of his last and greatest period. Ezra raised money to support T.S. Eliot and, in the most celebrated editing feat of the century, transformed The Waste Land from a fascinating mess into a masterpiece. James Joyce admitted that without Pound's wheeling and dealing to put bread on his table, he could never have written Ulysses...
With games against Dartmouth tonight and Yale and Brown this weekend, the cagers might even duplicate their tremendous feat of a year ago, when they concluded play with five straight triumphs and the promise of better things in the future, the future presumably being this winter...