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Where does he go from here? King recognizes that once Ali retires or loses, much of the million-dollar glamour of boxing will fade. To avoid fading with it, he is expanding into producing records, representing pro athletes and making movies. With financial backing from Arab contacts, he has even made a bid to buy Madison Square Garden. "One day I will realize I can't make every deal. That day," he intones, "has not come...
...sums involved can be substantial. Most malpractice suits are settled out of court for less than $2,000, but awards of $1 million or more have become increasingly common. Last month a Florida court awarded Dentist Leonard Tolley, 58, and his wife Elsa a total of $1,685,000 after finding that surgery following an automobile accident had actually worsened the paralyzed patient's condition. In California, there had never been a million-dollar judgment until 1967; there have been 13 of them in the past 28 months...
...Manhattan's East 58th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues, to hammer out a new moral code for human society. The angels cannot understand a relatively new development called "money," which has become the most powerful of humanity's totems. They begin to suspect that the million-dollar lapel grabber and his wife can help...
...urge to sing a few bars from the rock song Philadelphia Freedom in an uncertain tenor or to entertain the club's teenagers with raunchy jokes. James Scott Connors, 22 going on 19, was taking his own kind of time-out from training for this Saturday's televised million-dollar match with the world's No. 2 player, Australian John Newcombe...
...rare week for business scandal: three tangled tales of million-dollar misdeeds grabbed the headlines simultaneously. In Washington, federal energy officials confirmed suspicions that overcharges by oil suppliers during last year's period of Arab embargo and shortage had cost consumers hundreds of millions of dollars, much of which the Government has ordered refunded. In New York City, United Brands, famous for its Chiquita bananas, admitted bribing officials of Honduras, setting off an uproar that threatens government stability in that country. In Tel Aviv, the indictment of a highly placed Israeli executive on charges of siphoning cash...