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...using lewd language. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat disclosed in a taped interview via satellite that he had been asked to send troops into Lebanon. "1 must tell you quite frankly, Bah-bar-ah," said the helpful newsmaker, "this is for the first time." He later congratulated her on her "million-dollar job" and noted somewhat wistfully that he earns a minuscule $12,000. Given time for a debut statement of her own, Walters promised viewers "the best darn news program...
...today is complicated by the fact the Democratic candidate, who affects a plain-folks style, is a man who left public service to take over a faltering family business. He then pursued its enlargement with relentless skill. With the help of tax preferences and Government props, he created a million-dollar concern, made $137,000 last year, on which he paid just under 13% federal income tax. A million dollars does not, of course, mean what it used to, but the magical figure still inspires the notion that a fellow has done pretty well. The Republican contender, while moving pleasantly...
...script at NBC was carefully plotted: Jane Pauley, 25, the corn-fed Catherine Deneuve who was the leading contender for a cut-down version of Barbara Walters' old job on the Today show, would join the program on Oct. 4-the same day, cunningly enough, that Million-Dollar Barbara started work at the ABC Evening News. That timing would have helped blunt the effect of ABC's extravagant promotion campaign to celebrate Walters' change of venue, and perhaps helped minimize NBC's embarrassment at losing television's No. 1 newswoman to a rival...
...Jarreau: Glow (Reprise). Jarreau is primarily a jazz singer with a scatman's vast repertory of swoops, glides and vocal glissandi. In concerts he adds his own million-dollar magic trick: he carries a band in his larynx - or so it seems when Jarreau fills in the melody with vocal imitations of instruments. He can even accompany himself, crooning the words of a sleepy ballad while making rhythmic clicks deep in his throat to provide a percussive counterpoint. Jarreau's vocal antics on this LP are confined to a guitar (Fire and Rain), flute (Glow) and bass (Hold...
...Million-Dollar Manager...