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...followed, TV and air travel provided other options for escape, as parts of the neighborhood were razed for public housing. Revival-minded artists have partly displaced the crime, drugs and prostitution that took hold in the '60s and '70s, but vacant lots, boarded storefronts and school- bus depots still lap up against Coney Island's main attractions...
...went a-courtin'. CBS bit, big time, in 1979 when it agreed to televise the Daytona 500 flag to flag. That race couldn't have gone better for NASCAR: the superstar Richard Petty won when leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crashed into each other in the final lap, then leapt from their cars and got into a fistfight. It was marvelous theater, and ratings were high, which they've remained since. The last TV deal France signed before bequeathing NASCAR to his son in 2003 was for six years and $2.4 billion...
...take over the airline three years ago. Now that the No. 3 carrier is emerging from 19 months of bankruptcy restructuring on April 30, and with his legacy at the company securely in place, Grinstein, 74, plans to retire (again) this fall. Until then, he is savoring a victory lap. On May 3 he flies Delta to New York City from his home base of Atlanta to relist the airline on the New York Stock Exchange as DAL, with a market value of roughly $10 billion...
...Mass Hall wailing, “Are you there Derek C. Bok? It’s Me, Peter,” be kind, and get him a roll of toilet paper, because he probably just double-fudged in his pants. Remember to submit applications to write the Bell Lap 3. The application can be found at the end of the last article. Apps are due by this Monday, May 7, and our successors will be named in the final issue...
...complain that the U.S. has not aggressively pursued U.S. financiers of the Colombian paramilitary groups on its own list of terrorist organizations. "It wasn't like this was an aggressive investigation," said Kovalik. Chiquita came forward with information about the payments, and the case "sort of fell in the lap of the Justice Department so they had to do something," he said...