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When it came down to the wire this January, however, most official College groups were awed by the multimillion dollar price tag Dean Rosovsky hung on the uniform four-year housing plan, and few were drawn to the North House proposal to further integrate upperclass...
...doing long-range forecasting for the Stanford Research Institute. Later he became a V.P. for a Bermuda-based investment company, then a co-founder of a small Swiss bank. The bank flourished, was subsequently bought out by United California Bank, and Erdman found himself wheeling and dealing in multimillion-dollar projects around the world. But in 1970 several officers in the bank's trading department illegally used $40 million of depositors' funds to speculate in commodities futures. Though no depositors lost money on the deals, Erdman, as the bank's president, was clapped in a Basel jail...
...with a running time of five hours, ten minutes -a full two hours beyond the contractual limit. Producer Alberto Grimaldi has forcibly taken it out of Bertolucci's hands. The U.S. distributor, Paramount, is balking at releasing it. The dispute has turned into a three-cornered fusillade of multimillion-dollar lawsuits. No wonder Bertolucci has been suffering of late from a series of psychosomatic ills that he calls "the 1900 syndrome...
...Cosell after dropping a unanimous 12-round decision in San Juan, Puerto Rico, last week to 3-to-l underdog Jimmy Young. Young's cover-up tactics and counterpunching created more than another dent in the former champ's fragile ego. They put a crimp in the multimillion-dollar plans of Promoter Don King to get Foreman back in the ring for a rematch with Titleholder Muhammad Ali. After flirting with retirement following his victory over Ken Norton last fall, the aging Ali has signed to fight unknown Italian Lorenzo Zanon for about $4 million in Korea this...
That is changing. Mindful of the women's movement, fearful of Government action, and stung by a multimillion-dollar antidiscrimination suit filed against NBC by its female employees in 1975, the three major networks have discovered that women deliver the news as credibly as men. In the three years since Pauline Frederick left NBC (she is now a commentator for National Public Radio), the number of women network journalists on-camera has nearly doubled, to 25. While Barbara Walters was making headlines with her $1 million-a-year contract at ABC, three women moved into newsreading jobs. NBC assigned...