Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alabama and Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts.* Last August, Talmadge revealed in a deposition that it had long been his practice to accept pocket money, clothing and lodging from friends. In fact, he had written only one check for cash in six years. Says he: "Wherever I go, people entertain me, lodge me, give me small amounts of money. My out-of-pocket expenses come from donations friends give me-$5, a $10 bill, sometimes $15 or $20." The Senate Ethics Committee is investigating the propriety of his way of meeting living expenses...
...worth and his wage. Last week the Administration followed up with a more generous plan: tax credits for companies that hire the hard-core unemployed, up to $2,000 for each person put to work. The cost could be $1.5 billion a year. This week President Carter will entertain 140 business and black leaders at a White House dinner and plead with them to hire and train under the program. Chances are they will agree, because blacks need jobs and business needs skilled workers...
...have fallen off to nearly half their level of a year ago. The miles of nightclub neon that used to light up the Roman nights have dimmed to a mere two stylish spots, Jackie-O's on week nights and The First on weekends. "Rich people now only entertain at home, and they don't want us," complains Photographer Umberto Pizzi. Says Designer Principessa Helietta Caracciolo: "Actually, the rich are in hiding...
...march won't get underway for another two hours. By then, the buses will have arrived, unloading thousands of demonstrators who have traveled from as far away as Wisconsin and Florida. In the meantime, musicians entertain the gathering crowd with songs of protest. Their performances are interspersed with selections from records suitable for demonstrations, played through the P.A. system. The sun's out, and when the breeze is not blowing it's warm enough for shirt-sleeves. It's a perfect spring day, the cherry blossoms are blooming and 20,000 demonstrators will march from the White House...
...yesterday, a group of red-clad gentlemen descended on the residents of the Boston area, hellbent on destroying the upstart locals. Cornell's lacrosse team re-enacted the incident on the Business School field yesterday, as the Big Red clobbered a Harvard team that had dared to entertain the revolutionary notion of upsetting the number one team in the nation...