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Both the Transit Authority and the Port Authority, which operates more than 20 bridges, tunnels, airports and freight terminals, do multimillion-dollar business with New York banks, including Chase Manhattan, headed by David Rockefeller. Asked what, if anything, he did in return for the gift, Ronan jauntily told reporters: "I said thank...
Meanwhile, in the U.S., other TIME correspondents interviewed KEN REGAN members of Foreman's family and reported on the special financial arrangements of this multimillion-dollar bout. Their files went to Senior Editor Laurence Barrett, Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein, and Sport Editor Philip Taubman, who prepared to write this week's story by visiting both fighters at their U.S. training camps...
...Dutch-born truck driver, Hofstede decided to stay in government, became a Minneapolis alderman at 26. Last year he was elected mayor of Minneapolis in a startling upset over the law-and-order incumbent, Police Detective Charles Stenvig. Since taking office, he has begun an ambitious multimillion-dollar urban-renovation plan, reorganized equipment to provide better mass-transit service and placed considerable emphasis on preserving the flavor-and safety-of Minneapolis' old neighborhoods...
...haunt The Exorcist. Now Greek Orthodox Bishop Mark Athanasios C. Karras of Miami is suing Warner Bros., Harper & Row, Bantam Books and Author William Peter Blatty for the unauthorized use of his name in the book and the movie. He wants $7 million of the work's multimillion-dollar profit. Mark Athanasios C. has exorcised demons for years, he says, and what particularly peeves him is that Blatty has made the fictional Father Karras "a weak and failing priest." Said a professionally wounded, flesh-and-blood Karras: "The book and the picture wrongfully depict my life and work...
...marriage may have been planned in heaven, but 16-year-old Guru Maharaj Ji needed earthly approval from Colorado's juvenile court last week before wedding his secretary, Marolyn Lois Johnson, 24. As head of a multimillion-dollar religious conglomerate and spiritual leader to a reputed 6 million followers of the Divine Light Mission round the world, the portly "perfect master" had little trouble convincing Judge Morris E. Cole that he was mature enough. He then doffed his Indian robes for a dark tuxedo, the bride dressed in a red and white gown and bedecked herself with flowers...