Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your cover story on defense was embarrassingly one-sided. You couldn't have done a better job if you had been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense to prepare a public relations brochure to sell defense programs...
...player in baseball. The National League's Most Valuable Player for two straight years, Morgan says proudly: "I want people to expect a lot of Joe Morgan. Success scares some people. Me, I have to have it." The Cincinnati Reds' cocky second baseman has a three-year contract with the club that will net him nearly $1.5 million, but he could add substantially to his earnings by endorsing more products (he stars in several TV commercials) and making personal appearances. However, he maintains, "I'm a private guy. The less I do after the World Series...
Despite her $1 million-a-year contract with ABC-TV, Barbara Walters still lives in the midtown Manhattan apartment that she has occupied for 15 years. "You'd think she'd buy a house in the country," says one close friend. "But no, she barely has time for weekends...
...afford to: Author K's revenues from his memoirs are expected to reach the $5 million mark, to which his five-year contract with NBC may add another $1.5 million. Indeed, Henry the K seems to be holding down half the top jobs in the country. He has joined Chase Manhattan's board of international consultants, is booked for several "substantially paid" speaking engagements later this year, and will take a one-year appointment as professor of diplomacy at Georgetown University...
...Playwright Lillian Hellman told the New York Times last year she had heard the manuscript contained "a hysterical personal attack on me." Little, Brown, the publisher for both writers, requested the deletion of four passages about Hellman from the Trilling text. When the author refused, the publisher terminated the contract, precipitating a ruckus whose reverberations can still be heard...