Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nothing could have illustrated Harris' predicament better than the futile party fund-raising affair held last week in Miami Beach. He first announced that it would be a 16-city closed-circuit television spectacular that might net the party $2,000,000 in its drive to overcome a deficit of more than $8,000,000 remaining from the 1968 primary and presidential campaigns. But Harris had failed to consult city and state Democrats in advance. Many refused to cooperate, claiming that they did not want to siphon off money they needed for their elections next November. Why ask donors...
Received Money. What seems incredible about the Ellenburg affair is that Stokes had not heard about the accusations earlier. For the past two months, ex-Mafia Attorney Lawrence A. Burns has been talking with Michigan authorities and newsmen about his dealings with gangsters and cops in Detroit. He claimed that Ellenburg had been receiving bribes for years from mobsters to protect the numbers racket and from Burns himself to protect an abortion clinic. Burns also fingered Thomas Cochill, another former Detroit lawman whom Ellenburg had brought to Cleveland as his personal aide...
...Paris criminal court is concerned, the answer to Alexander Pope's question seems to be yes. For four years, red-haired Anne-Marie Di Tomazo, 30, and wealthy Paul Lozada. 42, were lovers. Five years ago, urged on by his wife, Lozada broke off the affair. Was Anne-Marie ready to give him up? Far from it. As Lozada described it in a legal complaint: "She pursued me in her car from my house to my office and vice versa." On Sundays, she sat behind the Lozadas in church. Once, she provoked a collision with Paul...
...audience was not disappointed. It consisted of more than 2,100 brokers, bankers and other businessmen, who had paid $325 each last week (all together nearly $700,000) to attend the third annual Institutional Investor conference, an affair that could have been called Gold Diggers of 1970. They expected, with good reason, to be provided with both entertainment and provocative comments on the management of money. Those are the elements that the speaker, 28-year-old Gilbert E. Kaplan, has mixed to create one of the fastest-growing businesses on Wall Street and a personal net worth of about...
...health issue may turn out to be an even more bitter struggle since the university has made no commitments and thus far has maintained the posture that delivery of health services in the community is none of its affair, with responsibility resting solely on the Affiliated Hospital Center...