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...Percent," muttered the hapless minister; it was a nickname he had earned for his habit of taking kickbacks on government projects. Kenyatta raised his cane and whacked the man twice again. "No more," demanded Mzee. And there was no more...
...hidden motive is to fold the ailing Post and use the strike paper as the basis for a new, nonunion daily. More likely, both Murdoch and his allies at the Times want merely to make sure that their distribution networks keep busy and that New Yorkers retain the habit of reading local newspapers?which many abandoned during the 114-day New York newspaper strike...
...with doing its bit by driving people out of the house with its stale summer reruns. Perhaps most important of all, last year's string of mega-hits-Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Close Encounters of the Third Kind-has helped put the public back into the movie habit. Says 20th Century-Fox Senior Vice President Ashley Boone: "People are enjoying themselves. I don't know whether they are cheering for the swimmers or the sharks, but they are cheering...
...each. Congressional stars like Howard Baker and Warren Magnuson can easily raise $50,000 through these affairs. Democrat Lud Ashley, chairman of the House Energy Committee, held a bash in July and netted about $30,000. Lesser lawmakers barely break even, but can't seem to shake the habit of staging such parties anyway. "It's one of the seamy sides left in lobbying," protests one of the ticket-buying victims...
...Taylor Fleming wrote that the publication in 1975 of a gossipy chapter about his high society friends from Capote's long overdue novel, Answered Prayers, "quite simply changed his life." The result: instead of being famous, he became infamous and took heavily to drink and pills, "a longtime habit at last grown serious...