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...Silver Springs, Fla., and who survived eleven bites from the lethal likes of rattlesnakes, copperheads and cottonmouth snakes; of cancer; in Gainesville, Fla. A stand-in for Johnny Weissmuller in the Tarzan movies of the 1930s and '40s, Allen was in the final stages of building a million-dollar tourist attraction called Alligator Town, scheduled to open this summer near Lake City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 1, 1981 | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

...Change, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. Then, too, there is the Food Research and Action Center, whose troops tramped up to the Hill to protest the proposed food-stamp cuts. FRAC, employing 25 lawyers, technicians and persuaders, gets two-thirds of its million-dollar budget from the Federal Government it is now attacking. Uncle Sam is once again caught beating himself over the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: An Army in Pinstripes and Guccis | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...Francisco while wearing a suit of armor. Says he: "For years I have conducted my affairs in exactly the same way, having audits and settling my tax problems on a friendly basis. But as soon as I got a high profile, the IRS began what must have been a million-dollar investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knights of the Tax Table | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...these requirements are confining, no one at TOT seems to notice, or care. The company started with $35,000 from the Moody Foundation, bankrolled by the estate of a multimillionaire Texas financier; TOT's success has been so swift and sure it is now flourishing on a million-dollar budget. Some of that comes from revenues and some from grants by Texaco, Exxon, First City Bancorporation of Texas, Dresser Industries and Levi Strauss, as well as the state of Texas and the National Endowment for the Arts. This year the group comes East for the first time (stops will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Have Arias, Will Travel | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...Writer Ray Bradbury, who never learned to drive, is one of the few million-dollar earners in Los Angeles who rides buses and bikes. He has no regrets. "It's like sex and a twelve-year-old," Bradbury shrugs. "You don't miss what you've never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Kiwi in the Catbird Seat | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

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