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Some long-delayed parts of Carter's energy program began coming back to life too. At a White House breakfast, House Speaker Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill told Carter that a $227 billion windfall profits tax on oil companies-designated by the President as his No. 1 legislative priority-should be on his desk for signature sometime this week. Other important energy bills, O'Neill promised, will be passed and sent to the President by March 1. Included: establishment of an Energy Mobilization Board to speed fuel-producing projects, and of an Energy Security Corp. to spur...
There appears to be less fuel for partisan wrangling in 1980 than in most presidential election years, however. The loudest fights usually come over domestic policy, and that is not what is preoccupying this Congress; its mind is on foreign affairs and defense. Says Tip O'Neill: "I think the mood out there is that we have to be prepared for conventional skirmishes, and the American people feel for the first time that we do not have that capability. I'm talking about the safety of the country, and you put that ahead of energy, inflation, balancing...
Reporters at the Enquirer are generously paid: some start at $35,000, and the paper's 5,000 part-time correspondents receive up to $500 for a cover tip and $1,000 for a cover photo. In return, they are expected to bring in stories that other journalists cannot or will not touch. Says Sue Reilly, a PEOPLE magazine reporter in Los Angeles who worked four months at the Enquirer: "When I told them I wouldn't stake out Ali MacGraw's kid's school for a story, an editor told me, 'We bought...
...find out if he planned to marry Diane Keaton. (He was not fooled and refused to answer her questions.) More invidious are the payoffs that have long been a part of gossip journalism. Typically, a bartender or maitre d' will be paid $25 to $50 for a story tip, and a publicity agent or someone else in the know will get a couple of hundred dollars for confirmation. Says Paul Corkery, a former Enquirer reporter and now an editor at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner: "One thing I liked is that it is the last refuge of scoundrels...
...adolescent fad the older generation could co-opt and enjoy; by decade's end exclusive restaurants and private clubs had opened discos, and annual membership fees at some of the plusher, better-equipped ones started at several hundred dollars. Studio 54, and all it represented, was only the tip of a narcissistic iceberg that ranged the gamut from hot tubs to Plato's Retreat. Those who could no longer afford the Studio and were still a bit too tame for Plato's, it seemed, were all out jogging or roller skating...