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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story in its own backyard. Last week at the Point Reyes (Calif.) Light (circ. 2,700), the paper's own backyard was a national story. The Light was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its investigative articles about the activities of Synanon, the controversial drug-rehabilitation group with headquarters six miles away. Out-of-town journalists quickly descended on the paper's storefront office in Point Reyes Station (pop. 420) to interview the Light's owners, Cathy, 34, and David Mitchell, 35. Armed with Stanford journalism degrees and experience on small papers elsewhere, the Mitchells bought the Light...
...anxiety by seeing an analyst, but says, "That's only good for limited thingsI was always careful not to get seduced into TV writing. I was making a lot of money and knew it was a dead end; you get seduced into a lifestyle, move to California, and in six months you become a producer...
Outside Cobo Hall, demonstrators pressed for a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for 205,400 retired auto workers and 29,100 surviving spouses. The current agreement does not have a COLA clause but pays pensioners about the same $700 a month that they were getting six years ago. Some union delegates are now talking about a raise to $1,100, plus a COLA...
Racing wheel to wheel in Darlington, S.C., Darrell Waltrip, 32, nosed out King Petty, 41, by 1.2 sec., in what is turning into the most exciting and richest season on the top circuit of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. For his four hours, twelve minutes and six seconds of work, Waltrip won $23,400. In 1968 the crowd at Darlington numbered some 22,000; this year nearly 68,000 (up 33% from 1978) paid between $10 and $30 a ticket to watch the jousting. Although the sport was born in the South and is still centered there...
...music, Though an iconoclast who deplauds seriousness of any kind, he works like a demon in the recording studio, With enough original material on tape to press at least twenty albums, he has long since become a faultlessly conscientious producer. And as a performer, he rehearses his bands unmercifully, six hours a day for months before a tour, "getting it right." The ultimate indication of his extreme nature is his renaming of the Mothers of Invention. They are now simply "Zappa...