Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carson thinks he can do some organizing in Black's life. He has a script he hopes Black will star in. Meanwhile, they are planning a dawn wedding in a forest on the Fourth of July. The ceremony will boast balloons and banners, a contrast to the Black-Burton nuptials, which featured the bride and groom larking in bed sheets. Black vows: "I'm ready for a good marriage and children." But the new bride will be back on the Deceit set the next...
...melodrama stage as Mayor Abraham Beame went before TV cameras to unveil a "crisis" budget of $11.9 billion for fiscal 1976. A patchwork document hurriedly reproduced on copying machines by 150 clerks who worked through the night, the budget calls for dismissals of 37,315 city employees, or one-fourth of the total, including 12.5% of the police department, 2,304 firemen, 8,941 school employees and 2,882 sanitation men. That would come on top of 35,082 job eliminations planned under Beame's previous "austerity" budget, for a total work-force cut of 72,397 by June...
...Angeles, the W.F.L. fared better, signing Southern Cal's quicksilver running back Anthony Davis reportedly for an emperor's ransom: more than $100,000 a year for three years in the backfield of the Southern California Sun, nearly $175,000 for a fourth and fifth year, $45,000 annually for 20 years after he quits, and $30,000 in supplemental income (for public relations work) for the first five seasons with the Sun. Davis also got himself a small extra for joining the W.F.L. instead of the N.F.L.: a $38,000 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow...
Carfagna said as soon as Ali's cancellation is confirmed, the Class Day Committee will extend an invitation to journalist Hunter Thompson, who had been their fourth choice as Class Day speaker...
...near until I explained the sign. I guess I looked desperate, so they let me in a couple that was going straight to Chicago I didn't learn that the driver had been speeding for two days--ever since he'd left L.A.--until he had his third or fourth Coors from a cooler in the back seat. The alcohol must have kept him on the fine line between too much speed and not enough sleep. But after a couple of swerves onto the shoulder I said that I would drive...