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...craving, CBS-TV offered its giant ego $6,000,000 (a $1,000,000 raise) to entice him into one more season. Out of that sum, Jackie's Peekskill Enterprises will pay all costs of producing the shows, but what Gleason likes is the size of the price tag. "I'm told it's the biggest one-year contract in the history of television," he chortled. And under the terms agreed on, he is going to try moving the whole show down to Miami, "so I can sit around in the sun and play golf while working...
...painful letter combinations turn up unasked for. The wife of a Houston judge burst into the registration office weeping, to beg relief from the ordeal of driving around town with P-U on her car's front and rear. A Los Angeles psychiatrist who found himself with a tag bearing the letters N-U-T explained that, while he did not mind it in the least, he was afraid some of his patients might think he was making fun of them...
...case was being tried in the small town of Okanogan, Wash. (pop. 2,001), but it had a big-city price tag: the plaintiffs asked $225,000 damages for libel and conspiracy. The cast of characters read like the line-up for a movie: an admitted ex-Communist, an organizer for the John Birch Society, two former state legislators (one a Democrat, the other Republican) and a dapper weekly newspaper publisher. Bit parts were to be played by a Hollywood star and an ex-U.S. Senator...
...than 20,000. Cause: driving on those happy, blood-soaked holidays, Christmas and New Year's. As the last twisted wreck was towed away, the last bits of glass and gore rinsed off the asphalt, lawyers and insurance companies began the dreary job of figuring up the price tag on destruction. Determining who pays how much for auto accidents is far and away the biggest legal business in the U.S. today...
...Communist radio announcer de scribes the tag end of a May Day parade: "We can already hear the noise of stamping and shuffling," he says with enthusiasm. "Yes, here they come. Our glorious incomparable rehabilitated invalids. A spirited detachment of legless men who are swinging their crutches with gusto. Wooden legs reflect the sun. Two men who have lost an arm each get together so they can clap...