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Their loyalty is bankable. The first two installments of the Rocky saga garnered an astonishing $400 million in worldwide distribution, against their modest combined production cost of $9.1 million. Rocky III grossed a near record $16 million in its first four days. Only one film, Superman II, has ever opened better, and that was because it was shown in 458 more theaters. Playing in 939 houses across the U.S., III has set a new Hollywood record by averaging $17,056 a theater in that period. Movie moguls still scratch their beards, wondering how the Italian Stallion managed to connect with...
...saga for Ann Swift began in February 1979, when the Islamic revolution erupted in Iran and the U.S. embassy was taken over for the first time. Most of the officers who had been staffing the embassy left soon after the takeover and the State Department recruited volunteers to fill the posts. Although all of Swift's training and experience had been in East Asia, she sympathized somewhat with the goals of the revolution and considered the dangerous situation dramatic and exciting...
REGARDLESS OF HOW the sordid saga of Dr. Arif Hussain resolves itself, the formerly Harvard-affiliated anaesthesiologist will probably never escape the label "RAPE DOC" which has so often this year decorated the pages of the Herald American in 60 point type. Hussain has made sensational copy throughout New England and the nation: the snappily dressed young intern, attractive wife and infant son in low, cheerfully denies guilt in three separate rape cases, while his flamboyant defense attorney challenges characters and motives of alleged victims...
Dugger takes the Johnson saga from the great-great-grandfather who did not fight at the Alamo as Johnson once boasted, through Grandfather Sam E. Johnson, who did not found Johnson City, Texas, as L.B.J. once claimed, to Father Sam Jr., a progressive state legislator who never realized his ambition of becoming a Congressman. Young Lyndon learned the art of the possible by tagging along as his dad cut deals and pulled strings, and when the older man turned to drink, Lyndon's iron-minded mother lashed the boy onward. She had him, at age four, reciting the Preamble...
...Harvard men's lacrosse team entered another chapter to the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde saga that it calls the 1982 season. Saturday afternoon, the laxmen eked out a 12-11 victory over tenth-ranked Adelphi at Garden City High School on Long Island in the featured event of the school's Lacrosse...