Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hollywood. Its residents, paying as little as $12 a week for their pink-and-green, 9-ft. by 12-ft. cubicles, ran largely to aspiring models and actresses. Many ran far, among them Grace Kelly, Joan Crawford, Gene Tierney, Lauren Bacall, Barbara Bel Geddes, Dorothy McGuire, Liza Minnelli, Ali MacGraw, Candice Bergen, Cloris Leachman. Eileen Ford stabled her young models at the Barbizon. The Katharine Gibbs secretarial school reserved three floors for its students...
...central figure in the affair is Harold Smith, 37, who has already been dubbed "the black Jesse James" by Don King, a rival boxing impresario. Virtually unknown two years ago, Smith suddenly burst onto the boxing scene in 1979 flashing mysteriously huge sums of cash. As chairman of Muhammad Ali Professional Sports (MAPS), he became almost overnight the leading big-time fight promoter. One of the members of the MAPS board of directors is Benjamin Lewis, 47, who until three weeks ago was an operations officer at a Beverly Hills branch of Wells Fargo and had authority...
Despite his name on the firm's front door, Muhammad Ali is not involved in the scam. But he admits that he received at least $10,000 for the use of his name for each fight. Said Ali last week: "If you're looking for something dirty or crooked, you're looking in the wrong place. Me a bank robber? Are you kidding...
...complemented by a cowboy hat and gold-rimmed sunglasses. His past is something of a mystery. During the 1960s, he worked in the civil rights movement with Stokely Carmichael. In 1976 he turned up in Los Angeles promoting concerts with stars like Shirley Bassey. His business association with Muhammad Ali began a year later, when Smith sponsored some amateur track meets...
...dollar's new strength and gold's weakness could pass quickly. If the world's moneymen decide that the Reagan Administration's inflation policy is too weak or that it will be killed in Congress, the recent currency adjustments might change again. Said Mohammed Ali Abalkhail, the Saudi Arabian Finance Minister, last week: "We are still looking for clearer indication of what policy Reagan will really follow. That will determine whether the current surge in the dollar is a temporary phenomenon. " - By Christopher Byron...