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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 20, 1977
Ballantine Books, which published the suddenly su |
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Ballantine Books, which published the suddenly successful, "Elvis: What Happened?" - a seamy peek at the singer's private life - announced yesterday that it had received what it called the largest single book order in publishing history.According to Ballantine publicist Sandy Bodner, the K-Mart Corp. ordered 2 million copies of the book to distribute through its nationwide chain of stores.Ballantine had initially printed 400,000 copies of the $1.95...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 23, 1977
Salvador Looks to PR to Mend Human Rights Rift With U.S. |
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If there is one less on this small Central American nation has learned from President Carter's human rights policy, it is importance of having friends in Washington.While grudgingly admitting to certain deficiences in its governmental respect for the rights of peasants political opponents and activist priests, El Salvador attributes much of its increasingly bad image in the United States to bad public relations.Many here share the increasingly widespread conviction in many...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 21, 1977
To Those With Hottest Jobs Heat Means Much More |
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Dressed in a woolen winter uniform and girdled to a perfect V by a surgical corset, Sp. 4 Edward L. Powers paces the mat before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with mechanical precision, oblivious to the 92-degree heat."Today is what we consider one of the nice walking days," he said.For his $160-a-week salary, Powers will lose three or four pounds a day walking the mat in the searing heat that melts the polish off his boots and makes a sponge of his corset. He...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 30, 1977
Learning to Cope Alone |
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For 21 years, Betty June Bongiovanni lived what seemed to her perfect existence."Like Ethel Kennedy," she says, she married a man who seemed too good to be true and she built her life with him: three sons, Boy Scouts all, the Baptist church, ice cream on Sundays, and a modest brick rowhouse in Northeast Baltimore.At 42, Fred Bongiovanni died unexpectedly of a heart attack. He left his wife with a meager insurance policy and even smaller pension from his...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 27, 1977
Nunnally Johnson, Screenwriter, Director, Dies |
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Nunnally Johnson, 79, screenwriter, newspaper columnist and motion picture director whose films included "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," "The Grapes of Wrath," and "The Three Faces of Eve," died Friday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles of pneumonia.Mr. Johnson considered the highest paid writer in Hollywood during the 1940s, worked with 20-Century-Fox, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 31, 1977
Count Your Un-Blessings |
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I know that this is the season to count your blessings. The blessings list is, after all, one of the few you can fill without a credit card. But having grown up prepared for the worst - sort of like the Defense Department - I always get nervous counting up (or on) the best. The minute I actually list a blessing, I'm convinced the big eraser in the sky will come down and wipe it off.For that, and other reasons having to do with the evil eye, I feel much more comfortable...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 30, 1977
Change at Fed Given Mixed Reviews |
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The following article, by President Carter's nominee as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, is reprinted from Oct. 5, 1974, issues of Business Week magazine, by special permission.) The present long-term inflation spiral is the result of trying to fulfill legitimate worldwide needs and wants by means of credit and deficits rather than by savings, investment, and productivity.As a consequence, demand has outrun the capacity to supply. Shortages have bred cartel...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 29, 1977
The Year That Wasn't: What If Billy Had Stuck to Peanuts? |
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The year 1977 wasn't the best of times or the worst of times. But as we look back, it could have been a lot different if, for example: President Sadat told Prime Minister Begin he would like to come to Jerusalem, and Begin had replied, "I'm sorry, but I have to play golf this weekend."Ronald Reagon had told the Young Republicans, "We don't need the Panama Canal and we don't have rights to it. I say,...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 28, 1977
The Strategic Oil Reserve |
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PRESIDENT CARTER is about to get himself - and the country into serious trouble with his silly promise to balance the federal budget by 1981. His Office of Management and Budget is now quarreling with the department of Energy over the size of the government's strategic petroleum reserve. Last summer the Department started buying oil and pumping it into undergroung caverns against future emergencies. The issue now is the size of the reserve that the country needs - whether it should...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 26, 1977
Charlie Chaplin, Genius of Comedy |
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Charlie. A genius. A flawed human, perhaps, but a genius, assimilating his father's proper Suffolk family, his mother's Gypsy blood. A moving, irritating, survivor.His blue eyes, once seen, were never to be forgotten - intensely blue, almost icy, but warm, warm, warm. Short and tawdry on film, he was vivid, glowingly handsome in the flesh.I first looked into those eyes during the third inaugural of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941. Chaplin had appeared in...
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