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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bird, who led Indiana State to the NCAA final and was named player of the year, reportedly wanted to become the highest paid player in the NBA when talks started two weeks...
Investigative reporting and imaginative writing linger on, but most major alternative weeklies are becoming bastions of bourgeois buck chasing. Boston's weekly Phoenix (paid circulation 68,000, free distribution 50,000) averages 150 pages, promotes itself exuberantly on radio and television, and grossed $4 million last year; its publisher drives a counterrevolutionary Rolls-Royce. The rival Real Paper (48,000 paid, 57,000 free) is owned by a former state legislator, a corporate lawyer, and a Rockefeller heir. Chicago...
Legal revenge is expensive; fees for special prosecutors in murder cases run from $5,000 to $10,000, and some lawyers speculate that Melton paid a private lawyer $25,000. He denies it, but whatever he paid, he was not satisfied with the result, a ten-year prison term for Roberts for manslaughter. Says Melton: "He should've gotten more...
...couldn't succeed at anything, so I became a prophet of doom." A decade ago, he was $250,000 in debt after his speed-reading schools failed and he had to declare personal bankruptcy. Today he estimates his net worth at $600,000 and reports that he has paid off all but three of his creditors. Says Ruff: "This nation is ripe to be manipulated by a powerful personality. I am appalled at the ease with which I am acquiring a following...
...frequently about the road to professional school--students were "more conservative, less adventurous, and less willing to do something that could put them out on a limb." Between 1971 and 1974 the percentage of graduating seniors who were undecided about their career goals plummeted from 26 to 4. You paid your money, picked your track, and locked in. Zeph Stewart, master of Lowell House from 1963 to 1975, remembers 1975 as a high point of good feeling between students and faculty...