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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miami's Edison-Little River Council on programs for the unemployed and disadvantaged. But when Dade County investigators checked up on how Council President Nathaniel Dean was actually using all that money, they found evidence that he had diverted $22,000 for the use of a gasoline station that he owns. He also made an undetermined number of interest-free loans to his various relatives. He employed a staff psychologist at the council who had no degree in psychology and whose home address turned out to be a vacant lot. In addition, Dean spent $300,000 on a farm...
Last week, after spending the day on the estate, he got a lift to the local train station with his secretary in her 1965 Mustang. As they rounded a curve, they collided head-on with a car driven by a 16-year-old boy. Rockefeller, 72, and the boy were killed instantly; the secretary and a woman in a third car were injured. The accident occurred only a mile from the 3,200-acre family estate in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., that was the childhood home of John and his brothers...
...white rabbit. Her neighbor, Tim Wilson, used to have a pet black cat. One day Cootus the cat crept out, confronted the rabbit, and, according to Lynch, the bunny died of fright. Lynch called the animal warden, and the cat was soon incarcerated at the local police station, where it hissed at its captors. Three hours after catching the cat, the cops carried it off to a firing range and dispatched it with a shotgun...
...future of the anchor profession itself is not assured. Station managers and news directors will be watching closely this week when ABC News introduces its new network evening-news format, which will replace two New York-based anchors with four regional supercorrespondents. More and more stations are buying electronic gear, like minicams, that makes it easier to cover breaking news "live," a move that some TV journalists say will diminish the anchor role...
Until that day, however, the cost of anchors will probably soar even higher, if only because both anchors and their bosses know that stations can afford it. "Obviously there's a limit to what we can pay, but we haven't hit that limit yet," admits WNBC's Fein. WABC's Roger Grimsby may reach $300,000 when his new contract is signed this year, and Station Manager Nelson of WBBM predicts that salaries of top anchors will hit $500,000 within the next five years. Says one KNBC newsman: "Remember when you were...