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George Meany, 85, gruff, cigar-puffing chieftain of U.S. labor who rose from Bronx plumber to president of the AFL-CIO from its birth, in 1955, to 1979. Whether battling for fuller union lunch pails, assailing Communism, or dismissing critics who accused him of being too conservative, Meany lectured Presidents and public alike with equal bluntness...
...problem, according to primatologists who met in Atlanta last month to discuss gorilla fecundity, is that baby gorillas have often been hand-raised by solicitous zookeepers. So they never learned the requisite gorilla social graces, including the nuances of courtship. Says James Doherty of New York's Bronx Zoo: "You get a gorilla that thinks he's people and not a gorilla...
...salvage the film. The challenge is to reduce the length of the film by at least an hour while clarifying the story line and giving the audience some characters or situations to care about. U.A. is expected to invest another $10 million for the reclamation project. The South Bronx should be so lucky...
What Jake saw in a nostalgic nightmare, Martin Scorsese has put on the screen. The Bronx Bull butted his way to the middleweight championship of boxing in 1949. He "fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times I got diabetes." He played rope-a-dope with the Mob. He ballooned to 210 lbs. (from 160) within a year of retiring, was convicted on a morals charge involving a 14-year-old prostitute, and made a comeback of sorts as a road-show Rocky Graziano. Now 59, this sacred monster is canonized and cauterized in Scorsese's searing black and white...
...Budweiser's the sponsor, right, so I say, "Tell me this (adopts gruff Bronx street accent and yells) 'ANOTHER COLD ONE, MISS KHAMBATTA? TWO MORE COLD ONES FOR MISS KHAMBATTA. HEY, BILLY, YOU WANT ANOTHER ONE HERE? SO, BILLY, TELL ME, IS THERE ANY BEER IN OUTTA SPACE?' He was awful...