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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1983
Page
7
New York Andy Rooney says fame from his 60 Minutes segments complicates life. He notes reporters like Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite endure star system pressures and interviews, while a writer should stay out of the spotlight and observe from above.
Steve Wallenda 33 crossed 4166 feet on a 250 foot wire at 31 feet altitude in a three hour 31 minute feat behind a baseball diamond. The stunt, a North Port Little League benefit, adds two world records for distance traveled and turns on the high wire. He is the grand nephew of Kari Wallenda and the last male Wallenda in the circus lineage.
California has sold two blue 1974 Plymouths once used by Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. New owner Leo Singer of Stockton plans to drive Brown on a Washington parade route if he becomes president. Lee Brandenburg of San Jose may bulldoze his car as a protest symbol of Brown's administration.
Steven Spielberg's E T topped Japan’s box office with over 10 million tickets sold since December, while winning only one British Academy Award. The film’s success in Japan provided consolation for the director-producer amid honors abroad.
President Ronald Reagan laughed with the press at Washington's Gridiron Dinner and sang along, becoming the first president to participate in the club’s musical parody. The annual event features journalist members poking fun at government leaders and includes past piano duets by Nixon and Agnew.
During the performance the ensemble sang parody lyrics to a Latin beat while a rumba line formed at the front of the stage. At the line’s end Reagan appeared in a red serape and white sombrero creating a vivid moment.
President Reagan delivers a speech at the Gridiron Club dinner as James Baker Michael Deaver and Edwin Meese join in laughter. He jokes about the EPA controversy and rebuts 1984 presidential prospects while Sen. Gary Hart Alan Cranston Walter Mondale and Rep. Claude Pepper are noted in comedic lines.
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